Updated: October 5, 2013 17:01 IST
The Hindu
Eviction drive being carried out in the land belonging to Puliakulam
Mariamman Temple in the city on Friday. - PHOTO: K. ANANTHAN
The value of the land recovered is estimated to be worth over Rs. 12 crore.
Officials from the Hindu Religious and Charitable
Endowments (HR & CE) department along with police on Friday evicted
encroachers from nearly 60 cents of the land belonging to the Puliakulam
Mariamman Temple in the city.
Families
According to N. Natarajan, Joint Commissioner for HR & CE – Coimbatore Region, told The Hindu
that the temple had about 1.16 acres of land of which 60 cents were
under encroachment wherein 38 families were residing, so far.
When the department asked the residents to vacate and hand over the land to the temple, the residents resisted the same.
HC moved
They
approached the HR & CE Commissioner in 2009 and pleaded for giving
them the land that they were residing, but it was turned down and the
Commissioner said that the land belonged to the temple. The residents
then moved the Madras High Court and the court also ruled in favour of
HR & CE department seven months ago.
Subsequently,
the authorities on Friday reached the area with earthmovers, manpower
and police and evicted the encroachers. At present, 22 families were
living there. On seeing the officials, the residents removed their
belongings in vehicles. Police pickets were posted in the area.
The value of the land recovered is estimated to be worth over Rs. 12 crore.
http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/encroachments-removed-from-puliakulam-mariamman-temple-land/article5204301.ece
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