"The problem was with Ravikrishna, who is the son of a Christian mother and thus presumed to be a non-Hindu.
As per the prescribed rites of the temple, we are supposed to carry out a punyaham when we know that a non-Hindu has entered the temple...."
Enforcement of rules is one thing. Arbitrariness should not be there. The tanthri equates "presumption of a fact" with "knowledge of a fact". That is the real and immediate problem. He is taking decisions based on assumptions and presumptions.
