HC permits flower offerings to resume at Shirdi after 3 yrs

The Aurangabad bench of the Bombay High Court has permitted the resumption of flower and garland offerings at the Shri Saibaba Sansthan in Shirdi.

- Urvi Mahaj

The practice had been suspended for more than three years due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The HC was hearing petitions filed by the Sansthan's ad-hoc committee seeking approval to resume flower offerings, and another by flower vendors requesting permission to sell flowers inside the temple premises.

"It would be appropriate that permission is granted to the Sansthan/trust for resuming offering of flowers/garlands... and calling upon the ad-hoc committee to take appropriate decision at the earliest regarding the manner in which it decides to dispose of the waste to be generated by virtue of offering of the flowers/garlands," a bench of Justices Mangesh Patil and Shailesh Brahme said on November 14.