Overview

• A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta issued notice and gave the Centre four weeks to reply, listing the case for hearing thereafter.
• Subramanian Swamy says he filed representations on January 27, 2023 and May 13, 2025 after the court recorded in 2023 that the Culture Ministry was considering the issue.
• The plea requests Geological Survey of India and Archaeological Survey of India studies and asserts a duty to protect the site from misuse, pollution or desecration under the 1958 law.
• Ram Setu, a chain of limestone shoals between Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu and Mannar in Sri Lanka, has long been tied to disputes over the Sethusamudram canal, which was stayed in 2007.
• Coverage cites geologists who describe the formation as natural, even as many regard it as a site of faith and pilgrimage.