CJI Offers Prayers at Srimandir

Bhubaneswar (Reporters Today Bureau): Chief Justice of India NV Ramana visited the Lord Jagannath temple in Puri, Odisha, today and offered prayers. The CJI is in Odisha on a two-day visit. Ramana along with Justice Vineet Saran paid obeisance to the sibling deities at the temple. The chief justice was seen wearing a traditional dress and face mask.

Justice Ramana, surrounded by priests and senior officials, spent about 45 minutes inside the 12th century shrine complex. After offering his obeisance to Lord Jagannath, Balabhadra and Subhadra in the main temple, he visited a few sub-shrines in the Jagannath temple complex, said chief servitor of the temple, Janardhan Pattajoshi Mohapatra,

He visited Maa Bimala, Nrusinghanath, Mahalaxmi inside the complex, said another servitor Rajat Pratihari. The CJI belongs to a village in Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh. “We showed him the visitors’ record. He expressed satisfaction and signed in the visitors’ book. He also paid ‘Dakshina’ to us,” Rajat said.