Authorities have demolished a church built within the premises of a housing board in Vyasarpadi, Chennai, which was found to be constructed illegally.
More than a thousand people live in the 180 flats built by the Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board at M.G.R. Nagar in Vyasarpadi, Chennai. As these flats were in dilapidated condition, the Government of Tamil Nadu has made arrangements to build new buildings with a total of 288 flats at a cost of ₹45.31 crores. Work has been going to demolish the old dilapidated building to erect new structures.
During the demolition work, it was found that a Church had been built illegally on an area of 1200 square feet in the year 2000. The Church which was built without permission on government land was run by one Ignatius Santhosh under the name of Apostolic Liberation Church.
This was demolished by TNSCB authorities on April 20. More than 30 police men were deployed in the area as a precautionary measure to avoid any untoward incident.
(With inputs from Kathir News)
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