The Telangana High Court on Thursday directed the Central and State governments to explain their stand on imposition of complete ban on usage of Plaster of Paris (PoP) to make Ganesh idols.
A Bench of Chief Justice Ujjal Bhuyan and Justice and Justice Surepalli Nanda, hearing two writ petitions over the ban on usage of PoP to make Ganesh idols in Telangana, sought to know the response of the Union and the State governments on the matter by July 21. The Ganesh Chaturthi festival, celebrated on massive scale in Hyderabad and other parts of the State, falls on August 31.
The Bench, while noting that there were restrictions in other State on the height of the idols, said that no rules were framed to prohibit usage of PoP to make Vinayaka idols in other States like in Telangana. Two separate writ petitions were filed on the points connected to ban on usage of Ganesh idols made with PoP.
