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NT Bureau
Chennai, Aug 27:
 

LAND USURPED?: The vast 2.89-acre temple area that has been sold by preparing bogus documents with the connivance of politicians.

        Around 2.90 acres of land belonging to Sri Panachiamman Temple in suburban Nanganallur has become a centre of dispute after group of alleged land-grabbers who are said to have prepared fake documents and reportedly dispensed with the land in connivance with local politicians.

        The issue came to light when the new owners of this piece of land reportedly pledged it before a bank, later defaulted on it leading to the auction of the same.

        Earlier, the forefathers of one Subbarayapillai were maintaining the Sri Panachiamman Temple land. Over the years, the maintenance responsibility fell on the shoulders of Subbarayapillai's descendants P S Krishtapillai Yadav, P S Parthasarathipillai Yadav,

        P S Venkatachalpillai Yadav and P S Radhakrishnanpillai Yadav. The income out of the land should have been spent on the temple. Since rains failed there was no harvesting and the land had to be left fallow.

        The land was then leased out by the trustee of the temple and the Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowment Board authorised the trustee for the same. And it fell in the hands of a touring cinema troupe.

        It was amidst all this, that the land-grabbers allegedly made hay and sold the land with the use of fake documents, and then said to have defaulted on the loan they got from pledging the grounds to a bank. It was then the Chennai Debt Recovery Tribunal intervened and issued an auction notice on the temple land.

        What could the Debt Recovery Tribunal do if it is established that the mortgaged documents were false, only time can tell, the residents felt.