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Now the Bombay High Court has managed to place a big obstruction in the path of the Lord of Obstructions himself.

Ganesha, the presiding deity of a Sangli-based religious trust, was not allowed to open a demat account for trading in shares. “Gods and goddesses are meant to be worshipped in temples, not dragged into commercial activities like share trading”, judges P.B. Majumdar and Rajendra Sawant reported to have said.

The religious trust said that since Ganesha had been given a PAN card, he could get a demat account as well. However, the division Bench wondered whether the deity could be taken to task if case of any illegal transaction. The court further stated that it was not mandatory for NSDL (National Securities Depository Ltd.) to provide a demat account for every PAN card holder.

Interestingly, the Supreme Court of India has already given the right to deities to acquire property. In India, where people worship millions of deities and treat them as living persons, this case could be seen as man mocking his own faith in God.

“What might help this religious trust is Clay Ganesha, an ancient technology where a mud idol of Ganesha is energized in a special ritual. The idol takes on the troubles and difficulties upon itself. It is then dissolved in a water body, and with it the problems too are washed away”, say the remedial astrologers in Chennai.

For now, Ganesha might have been kept out of business, but he is sure to be back in business in a big way during Ganesha Chaturthi.