How courts saw Periyar’s 1953 act of breaking a clay Ganesha ‘idol’

Though the case was dismissed in several courts, including the Madras High Court, with judges saying that the ‘idol’ cannot be considered as something held ‘sacred by any class of persons’, the Supreme Court held that an offence had been committed, but did not prosecute the accused and dismissed the case as it had become stale

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