The Supreme Court requested a committee formed by the Madras High Court to identify Agamic temples as against non-Agamic temples in Tamil Nadu in three months.
Once the Agamic temples are identified, the status quo must prevail and no appointments of archakars (priests) must be made to them for the time being.
The committee headed by the former Madras High Court judge Justice M. Chocka lingam would conduct the identification exercise.