The Kerala High Court Friday quashed the charge sheet filed by police in thecontroversial Sabarimala "astrological finding" case, which includedKannada actress Jaimala among the accused.
Whileclosing the case, the court also said that the charges against the accused werenot legally tenable.
InJune 2006, a team led by noted astrologer P. Unnikrishna Panicker conducted afour-day "devaprasnam" (a puja to invoke god) at the Sabarimalatemple, following which Panicker revealed that there were signs of a womanhaving entered the sanctum sanctorum of the temple.
Asper the rules of the temple, dedicated to bachelor Hindu god Ayappa, women ofmenstruating age are not allowed inside.
Soonafter the noted astrologer's revelation, Kannada actress Jaimala claimed thatshe had entered the sanctum sanctorum and touched the temple deity in 1987.
Followingthis, a probe was launched and it concluded that the entire episode was stagedto earn name and fame for Panicker.
Policefiled a charge sheet against Panicker, his assistant Reghupathy and Jaimala forhatching a conspiracy and hurting religious sentiments of the people of thestate.
Thetrio had filed a petition in the high court to dismiss the case.
Sabarimalais a popular Hindu temple located in Kerala's Western Ghats area at an altitudeof 914 metres above sea level in Pathanamthitta district.