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An incident has taken place near Palladam in Tiruppur district where devotees stopped some individuals from trying to get a lease for a temple property worth ₹ 20 crores.
The 400-year-old Karivaratharaja Perumal Temple is located at Kalivelampatti near Palladam in Tirupur District. The temple is now in ruins as it lacks proper maintenance. The Karivaratharaja Perumal temple owns 3.5 acres of land in the nearby villages of Kalivelampatti and 6.5 acres in Sukkampalayam.
Devotees in the area have said that all the primary documents note that these are the property of the temple and that some people are trying to get a lease by attaching their name to the chitta for the temple land which was given as a reward by monarchs. They said the total assets of the temple that the encroacher were trying to occupy would be worth up to ₹ 20 crores.
The encroachers have erected a fence on the temple land and gotten an electrical connection. Venkatesh, Assistant Commissioner, Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments (HR&CE) Department, has advised the Revenue Department not to lease the temple land. Following this, the power supply to the temple land has been cut off. An official of the HR&CE Department said that the details of the lands given to the temple were withheld by the Revenue Department officials and they could not collect the full details of the temple property.
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