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More than a decennary aft her cultivation onshore was erroneously recorded arsenic temple property, abruptly depriving her of ownership, a pistillate turned to the Right to Information (RTI) Act to uncover the truth.
In 2012, S. Narayani of Chennai, was shocked to cognize her ancestral onshore measuring 75 cents astatine Tiruporur successful Chengalpattu territory had been shown successful the encumbrance certificate arsenic spot belonging to the Arulmigu Kandaswamy Temple, Tiruporur.
Along with her son, S. Rajkumar, Ms. Narayani approached officials of the Revenue, Registration, and Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments (HR&CE) departments seeking an mentation arsenic to however the family’s backstage onshore was listed arsenic temple property. However, their repeated representations evoked nary effect from the officials.
“We had each the onshore records specified arsenic genitor documents, patta, chitta and different gross certificates to found our ownership. But the officials could not nutrient a azygous papers to warrant however our onshore was shown arsenic authorities property. They refused to entertain our petition to alteration the records based connected facts,” Mr. Rajkumar said.
No effect to RTI Act plea
With nary alleviation forthcoming, Ms. Narayani filed an RTI Act exertion successful 2022 with the District Registrar-cum-Public Information Officer (PIO), Chengalpattu, seeking details connected however the ownership of her onshore had been altered. When the exertion drew nary response, she moved an entreaty earlier the Tamil Nadu Information Commission (TNIC) the pursuing year.
When the substance came up earlier State Chief Information Commissioner Md. Shakeel Akhter, helium summoned the PIOs of the 3 departments and directed them to explicate however backstage patta lands successful Survey Nos. 56/1, 56/3 and 56/5 had been converted into temple property, and to nutrient supporting documents.
Though the officials initially maintained the lands belonged to the temple, they failed to furnish immoderate records to substantiate their claim.
Wrong entries acknowledged
After respective adjournments spanning implicit 2 years, the Registration Department’s PIO submitted a study stating that mistakes and erroneous entries had been made successful 2007. The officials liable had since retired, the study said, and nary enactment could beryllium initiated against them.
The PIO further informed the Commission that the petitioner could attack the due authorities for registration of the property, provided determination was nary objection from the Revenue Department regarding the genuineness of the patta oregon immoderate pending litigation.
Passing orders aft proceeding some sides, Mr. Shakeel Akhter directed Ms. Narayani to attack the District Registrar, Chengalpattu, with each applicable documents for registration of her land, a determination that would reconstruct her ownership and rights implicit the property.
