There are almost 2000 acres of land worth ₹60,000 crores that belongs to the Thiruporur Kandhaswamy Temple and the Mamallapuram Aalavandhan Nayakar Charity Temple and Trust. 20 plus groups have been trying to encroach or snatch the property and land belonging to these two temples.

Advocate Jagannath has pursued a petition in the High Court, asking it to direct the Commissioner of the HR&CE department to measure the lands belonging to these two temples, and file a report on the same, that is to be submitted to the Madras High Court.

The Madras High Court has now ordered the HR&CE Department to file a report on the recovery of property belonging to the Thiruporur Kandasamy Temple and Alavanthan Temples .

They had petitioned that the Madras High Court should direct the temple officers to register the lands belonging to the temple, in the name of the temple, and that the Head of the Registry should be told that these lands should not be registered in any other’s name. The High Court that heard this case, directed that property belonging to the Thiruporur Kandhaswamy temple and Mamallapuram Aalavandhan temple should not be registered to anyone else, until the enquiry is completed and a report is filed.

The case, filed by B. Jagannath came for hearing to a Bench consisting of Acting Chief Justice Munishwar Nath Bhandari and Justice Adikesavalu, on Friday. The advocate who appeared on behalf of the HR&CE department said that efforts are already being taken to reclaim the properties belonging to these temples. So far, almost 19.71 acres of land has been identified and reclaimed. He also said that the properties belonging to these temples will be reclaimed by April 13.

The Judges who agreed to this, order for the case to be closed, in addition to ordering that the petition related to removal of encroachment of temple property needs to filed by May 10.

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A few days back, news channels celebrated the fact that a scene from Suriya’s controversial Jai Bhim film had made it to The Oscar’s official YouTube channel. It seemed like a great height reached, for a movie that was not one of the best made ones, according to film critics.

Now, on research, it has been found that anybody who pays ₹3,72,000 can get their ticket to feature their movie’s scene in the official Oscar YouTube channel.  According to the channel’s guidelines, if the filmmaker/producer wishes to submit their movie’s clipping to the channel for a spotlight, then they have to pay $5000 as submission fee. In addition, the guidelines also says that the clipping can be 15 minutes or a maximum of 20 minutes.

This feature of the Oscar’s official YouTube page is called “Scene At The Academy” and it is just an opportunity for spotlighting the filmmaking and creative process behind movies. This is open to all, and does not have any qualifier or filter, or any other kind of competing process. If the required amount is paid, the scene will be featured on the YouTube channel. However, no news channel has covered the truth behind this news. They have been spreading the news as though the movie reached this height through some kind of jury selection.

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A representative of the south regional National Council for Transgender Persons was allegedly abused and threatned by a group of people, who owe allegiance to a political party, near Mamallapuram. Gopi Shankar Madurai, who lives in the area, was allegedly threatened by 6 unidentified persons who are purportedly connected to a Political party, while he was walking back to his residence.

On Friday night, when Gopi Shankar was taking a stroll after dinner, near his residence, following all COVID-19 protocols, a group of 6 people came in bikes with political stickers, and threatened and harassed him, obstructing his path.

“6 people who belonging to the DMK – alliance party MDMK obstructed my way and started abusing and threatening me with death. They said they are close to Mallai Satya MLA from MDMK. On my opposition, they started mishandling me physically and pushing me away. They continuously abused verbally and mishandled me physically for around 20 minutes.” Gopi said speaking to The Commune.

“Despite my opposition, they started manhandling. They continuously abused and threatened me for nearly 20 minutes. After that, I managed to alert the police. A police patrol vehicle reached the spot but they did not take any action against them,” he said.

Gopi Shankar, who then visited the Police Station immediately after, to file a complaint, was not received properly by the police too. The Police who seemed very indifferent in their response said that they were ‘bigshots’ of Mamallapuram. They then asked Gopi to come the next day morning to register a complaint.

A senior officer in the station has said that necessary action would be taken after due enquiry. “Despite my official status, which is on a par with the Under Secretary to the Government of India, the police personnel in the station did not respect me nor took any affirmative action,” he charged.

(With inputs from The Hindu)

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A 500-yr-old Shiva temple has fallen to ruins do to lack of management, near Virudhunagar, Tamil Nadu. Locals, residents and devotees are now demanding the immediate restoration of this temple.

The temple is located in the Irunchirai village of Narikkudi in Tiruchirapalli. This temple, which is almost 500 years old, was built during the reign of the Pandyas. Due to lack of maintenance of temple, the interiors and towers of the building built of black stone are found to be crumbling and falling apart.

As Thorn-plants have grown all around the perimeter of the temple, it has lost its traditional pride and historical significance. The people of the village conduct special poojas on Tuesday, Friday, and Pradosha days, for the Shivalinga inside the temple.

Residents of the village and devotees have now requested the HR&CE department to take up the restoration works of the temple to bring it back to its glory. They have also requested that a Kumbabisheka of the temple should happen soon, post restoration and renovation.

(With inputs from News18)

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