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Watch: Prohibitory orders clamped in Tirupparankundram, litigants not allowed to light lamp at pillar

The Madurai district administration clamped prohibitory orders in thetemple town of Tirupparankundramlate Wednesday evening amid protests by Hindu outfits to permit lighting of the Karthigai Deepam lamp at the dheepathoon (pillar) atop the hill, close to a dargah, as directed by Justice G R Swaminathan of the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court.