India, Sept. 1 -- The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on September 2 a challenge to the Madras High Court's decision to quash an FIR in the 2004 Kapaleeswarar Temple peacock idol case involving industrialist Venu Srinivasan.

The petition, filed by temple activist Rangarajan Narasimhan against Srinivasan and another, is listed as SLP (Crl.) No. 7650/2024 in the Supreme Court's advance list. It is among a group of connected matters listed for hearing.

The case concerns allegations that an antique peacock idol at the Sri Kapaleeswarar Temple in Mylapore, Chennai, was replaced during renovation work in 2004. Srinivasan was associated with a government-constituted committee involved in the renovation exercise.

Narasimhan has alleged that...