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The Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments (HR&CE) Department connected Monday cleared encroachments from onshore belonging to the Varasidhi Vinayagar Temple, a sub-temple of the Lakshmi Narasimma Swamy Temple successful Ukkadam, Coimbatore. The Department recovered 79 cents estimated to beryllium worthy implicit ₹100 crore.
A elder HR&CE authoritative said the Joint Commissioner (JC) had issued an bid to region the encroachments successful 2015, followed by notices to those occupying the land. The occupants archetypal filed an entreaty earlier the Joint Commissioner’s court. After the bid was upheld, they filed a further entreaty earlier the Secretary to the Government, HR&CE Department (appellate authority), who besides sustained the archetypal decision. The substance was past taken to the Madras High Court, which rejected the petition connected November 27 this year.
“With the High Court rejecting the case, we proceeded with the JC’s archetypal bid and recovered the land, which had astir 22 structures, including residential and commercialized units,” the authoritative said.
Those surviving connected the onshore initially protested and sought clip to vacate, but eviction was carried retired with constabulary unit deployed astatine the site. AIADMK MLA Amman K. Arjunan visited the location, held discussions, and said helium would assistance the affected families successful securing alternate housing.
N. Prakash, whose location was demolished, said they came to cognize a fewer days earlier that eviction was likely. “We asked for time, but the process went ahead. We had nary enactment but to determination to our relatives’ houses immediately,” helium said.
