Temple land grab: 17 officials summoned over inaction

SLAMMING the HR&CE department, Karur administration and police for non-compliance of an order passed by it directing removal of encroachments from the properties of Balasubramaniaswamy temple at Vennaimalai, the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has summoned 17 officials, including the then HR&CE commissioner KV Muralidharan, collector M Thangavel and SP K Josh Thangiah.

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A bench of Justices P Velmurugan and B Pugalendhi gave the direction on a contempt petition filed by A Radhakrishnan of Salem over delay in compliance of the judgment, dated October 23, 2019, which directed the HR&CE department to remove the encroachments in nearly 508 acres of land belonging to the temple.