Stay on selling Ganesh idols made of Plaster of Paris to continue in Tamil Nadu

Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud on September 18 agreed to hear urgently in the next few hours a petition challenging a MadrasMadrasMadras High Court Division Bench order stopping the sale of Ganesh idols made of Plaster of Paris.

The idols are immersed as part of the Ganesh Chaturthi festivities on September 19.

The Division Bench of the High Court had stopped the sale of the Plaster of Paris (PoP) idols in a special sitting on Sunday.

The Division Bench has set aside a Single Judge order of the Madras High Court which had allowed sale by the artisans, provided proper register is kept for the inspection of the authorities, but imposed restrictions on the immersion of the idols made of PoP.