{"id":127825,"date":"2015-08-26T00:27:53","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T00:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2015\/08\/26\/jain-community-protest-against-high-court-verdict\/"},"modified":"2015-08-26T00:27:53","modified_gmt":"2015-08-26T00:27:53","slug":"jain-community-protest-against-high-court-verdict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2015\/08\/26\/jain-community-protest-against-high-court-verdict\/","title":{"rendered":"Jain community protest against High Court verdict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/><\/p>\n<div>Jains from both Digambar and Swetambar sects of Dimapur gathered at Sri Digambar Jain temple, Dimapur Tuesday to protest against the Rajasthan High Court order which had declared&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\u201csallekhana\/santhara\u201d (meditative penance at terminal stage by pious souls\/monks for salvation) as illegal.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>A press release by SD Jain Samaj secretary for information and publicity Sanjay Sethi, stated that the members of two sects gathered in the presence of Chhullika Bhakti Bhusanji and Puja Bhushanji Mataji, both of whom had explained the difference between suicide and sallekhana.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>It further stated that all Jain establishments had remained close on that particular day, in solidarity with Jains across the world that had come out in protest against the high court verdict.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>The release also stated that the presidents of Digambar and Swetambar Samaj Dimapur, Om Prakash Sethi and Sushil Pincha respectively shared their views and anguish on the occasion.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>The Jain prayed that the government of India would take some measures before the peaceful protest of the Jains become more acute.&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jains from both Digambar and Swetambar sects of Dimapur gathered at Sri Digambar Jain temple, Dimapur Tuesday to protest against the Rajasthan High Court order which had declared&nbsp; \u201csallekhana\/santhara\u201d (meditative penance at terminal stage by pious souls\/monks for salvation) as illegal.&nbsp; A press release by SD Jain Samaj secretary for information and publicity Sanjay Sethi, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[679],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nagaland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}