In a six-hour operation, the native administration in Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh on Friday evicted a person and his members of the family for allegedly staying illegally on the premises of Shri Ganga Maharani temple for 40 years. The person allegedly posed as a cooperative society peon.
The police sealed the 2 rooms at Kathghar after Bareilly resident Rakesh Singh filed a criticism with District Justice of the Peace Ravindra Kumar saying that the constructing was donated to his ancestors by the Shri Ganga Maharani temple belief in 1905.
In line with officers, two rooms got on hire to the Raghuvar Dayal Sadhan Samiti, a cooperative society, in 1956 and the society was later shifted to a different place after it was merged within the UP Cooperative Division.
After the criticism final week, Govind Maurya, Sub-Divisional Justice of the Peace (Sadar), Bareilly, served a discover on the alleged unlawful occupants of the 2 rooms – Wahid Ali and his members of the family – to vacate the place.
Sadar tahsildar Bhanu Pratap Singh, who confirmed that the cooperative division didn’t have peon with the identify Wahid Ali within the information, mentioned that folks believed then that Ali has been appointed because the peon for upkeep of the 2 rooms rented out to the society.
“Wahid Ali had claimed in 1986 that he’s the peon of the cooperative society and didn’t take away the signboard,” Singh added.
On Friday, three deputy superintendent of police, groups from three police stations and administrative officers of the district reached the place space and received the rooms vacated in an operation which lasted for six hours.
“The constructing has now been sealed as a result of together with Rakesh Singh, one other claimant of the identical place has emerged. We’re checking the income information to determine who the actual claimant of the place is and until then the constructing will stay underneath authorities seal .We’ve video graphed the entire train on Friday,” mentioned Maurya.
Rakesh Singh mentioned the temple had a white Shiva linga and idols of goddess Parvathi, Ganesha and Kartikeya moreover an enormous idol of mom Ganges. The place additionally had two wells exterior the temple.
After the eviction, Hindu outfit members and native residents have determined to “purify” the premises of the temple with cow urine and wash the world with the water from Ganga river.
“The occupants grabbed the place 40 years in the past and refused to maneuver regardless of a number of makes an attempt. That is the primary authorities which paid heed to my common complaints to get the property of my ancestors again to the rightful proprietor,” mentioned Rakesh Singh, one of many two claimants of the property unfold in 900 sq. gaj space in Bareilly.
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