Cantonment land encroached by Church and ordered to be evicted by Madras High Court

Often it is projected that there are roadside temples ! ~ here is something on a Church coming up on a site belonging to Cantonment Board – Madras High Court ordering eviction and yet there are protests. You can read for yourself the way in which it got reported in Times of India; Dinakaran and Dinamalar….

~ and so called Secularists will remain silent on such issues !!!

Help cantt board recover govt land: Madras HC  :  Times of India TNN | Mar 12, 2015, 02.56AM IST

CHENNAI: Madras high court has directed Chennai city commissioner of police to render assistance to the Cantonment Board in retrieving an encroached piece of land, which had been given to the civil supplies authorities to construct a ration shop for the locality in St Thomas Mount.

The first bench of Chief Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice M M Sundresh, passing orders on a PIL filed by N Irudayaraj of St Thomas Mount on Wednesday, said: "Chief executive officer of the cantonment board has been reportedly addressing communication to police authorities to provide police protection to remove the encroachment, and build a ration shop on the lands belonging to the government. There is apparently no response from police authorities. We thus direct the commissioner of police to render assistance to cantonment board as and when sought, with advance notice of seven days."

According to A Sirajudeen, counsel for Irudayaraj, the ration shop was meant to cater to the needs of more than 500 families in Sevenwells Street area in St Thomas Mount. As the shop had to be shifted, civil supplies authorities approached Cantonment Board to allot a suitable place to locate the shop. It later identified a one-ground site in the vicinity, and addressed a letter to the Board to build a structure and let it out to the civil supplies department.

In June 2013, however, one Bakya Regis of St Patrick Church erected a flag pole in the middle of the plot, and attached an idol too. Despite claims and representations from Cantonment Board stating that the land belonged to it, the encroacher did not remove the pole, Sirajudeen said. In November 2013, authorities started digging work after the squatter removed the pole. A while later, he again occupied the plot.

The present PIL was filed after unsuccessful attempts to vacate the encroacher, and it wanted the court to direct the Cantonment Board to remove all encroachments made by Bakya Regis, and hand over the plot to civil supplies authorities for construction of a ration shop building.

சென்னை புனித தாமஸ் மலைப்பகுதியில் உள்ள அந்தோணியார் கோயில் இடிப்பு

Dinakaran news :  2015-04-23 12:33:33

சென்னை: சென்னை புனித தாமஸ் மலைப்பகுதியில் உள்ள அந்தோணியார் கோயில் இடிக்கப்பட்டது. கண்டோன்மென்ட் பகுதியில் கட்டப்பட்ட 120 ஆண்டு பழமையான கோயில் இடிக்கப்பட்டது. நீதிமன்ற உத்தரவுப்படி அனுமதியின்றி கட்டப்பட்ட கோயில் இடிக்கப்பட்டது என அதிகாரிகள் தகவல் அளித்துள்ளனர். அந்தோணியார் கோயிலை இடிக்க வந்த அதிகாரிகளுடன் மக்கள வாக்குவாதத்தில் ஈடுபட்டனர். கொடிமரம் உள்ளிட்டவற்றை அப்புறப்படுத்திய அதிகாரிகளுடன் மக்கள் கடும் வாக்குவாதத்தில் ஈடுபட்டனர். 

~ and Dinamalar report