IAS officers’ committee inspects lands at Devarayamjal
The Hindu
A huge warehouse alleged to have come up there at the instance of Eatala Rajender
The four-member committee of IAS officers constituted to probe encroachment of temple lands by former Minister Eatala Rajender and his followers at Devarayamjal in Medchal district inspected the lands in question on Wednesday. The panel headed by Panchayat Raj Commissioner Raghunandan Rao saw a huge warehouse that had come up on the lands allegedly at the instance of Mr. Rajender. The other members of the committee Prashant Jeevan Patil, Swetha Mohanty and Bharati Holikeri were present along with officers of Anti-Corruption Bureau, Vigilance and Enforcement department and Endowments. They were assisted by eight tahsildars of GHMC. A preliminary inquiry on the lands was already conducted by the committee after its constitution on Monday. The inquiry resulted in cracking the whip on some Endowment officials. Mr. Chandramohan, the executive officer of Sitaramachandaswamy temple at Devarayamjal whose 1,521.13 acres of land was said to have been encroached was transferred to Endowments department headquarters while a member of Endowments Tribunal Geeta was asked to report to the government.For the first time in a Lok Sabha election, the AIADMK forfeited deposits in seven constituencies. For the ruling DMK, the verdict is seen as a popular endorsement of the functioning of its three-year government under Chief Minister M.K. Stalin. The outcome indicates that the BJP, whose Hindutva ideology has all along been considered alien to the political ethos of Tamil Nadu
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