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Revenue court rejects the encroacher’s claim over ₹10 crore land belonging to the historic Shri Ram Mandir Sansthan at Achalpur (Dist. Amravati)

  • Major success for the legal support extended by Maharashtra Mandir Mahasangh

  • Bid to usurp temple land foiled !

Achalpur (Dist. Amravati): The Revenue Court at Achalpur has foiled an attempt to usurp 3.5 acres (1.43 hectares) of valuable agricultural land worth ₹10 crore belonging to the historic and ancient Shri Sitaramchandra Sansthan alias Shri Ram Mandir (Bundelpura) at Mouza Khel Tryambaknaryan. Sudarshan Shahare, Tahsildar of Achalpur and Chairman of the Agricultural Lands Tribunal, accepted the preliminary objection raised by the temple trust and legally dismissed the tenant-applicant woman’s land purchase claim.

This is the first historic judgment in Maharashtra in which an entire claim relating to temple property has been dismissed at the very outset solely by accepting the legal validity of the preliminary objection, resulting in a verdict in favour of the temple trust. The temple land remained protected solely because of the strong legal support and assistance extended by Maharashtra Mandir Mahasangh to the newly appointed trustees of the Sansthan throughout this legal battle.

Attempt to grab temple land by exploiting the death of former trustees!

The disputed land belongs to the Shri Ram Mandir Sansthan. Its income is meant to meet the expenses of the temple’s Naivedya (ritual offering of food), daily worship, renovation and the priest. However, the temple is presently in a highly dilapidated condition, and the encroacher had not paid even a single rupee to the temple trust.

Taking advantage of the death of the former trustees, whose names continued to appear in the 7/12 land records, the applicant, Anita Lakhansing Tarwale, concealed the actual facts and filed an application seeking to have the land transferred to her name. Although new trustees had already been appointed under the orders of the Charity Commissioner, the proceedings were continued without impleading them as parties.

In this matter, Maharashtra Mandir Mahasangh State office-bearers Anup Jaiswal and Vineet Pakhode immediately intervened, submitted a representation to the Tahsildar, and brought the history of the land before him. According to the report of the Joint Charity Commissioner, Amravati, prior approval of the Charity Commissioner is mandatory for the sale or purchase of land belonging to a registered temple trust, and the applicant had obtained no such approval.

After examining the arguments of both sides and the documentary evidence, Tahsildar Sudarshan Shahare held that the applicant had failed to fulfil the requirements under the tenancy law and had no legal right to purchase the temple land. He therefore dismissed the application in its entirety and ruled that the land belongs to the Sansthan.

Throughout the proceedings, the newly appointed trustees of the Sansthan, Mayur Dixit, Ajay Tiwari, Purushottam Dubey, Rajkumar Mishra, Loknath Vajpayee, Sachin Awasthi and Nitin Maheshwari, presented the Sansthan’s legal case strongly.

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