In a bizarre case, the Railway department has served a notice to Lord Bajrang Bali asking for the removal of the “encroachment” on the Railway land in Sabalgarh town in Madhya Pradesh’s Morena district, but withdrew it after realising the mistake, an official said on Sunday.
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‘Remove encroachment or face action’
The notice addressed to Bajrang Bali and issued on February 8, directed the removal of the encroachment within seven days or face action. The encroacher will have to pay the expense if the Railways takes action to remove the structure, it said.
The notice was displayed at the deity’s temple, but it caused an uproar, the Railways corrected their mistake and issued a new notice addressed to the temple’s priest.
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Notice served in error
Manoj Mathur, the PR Officer of the Jhansi Railway Division, stated that the initial notice was served in error.
“Now, the new notice was served to the priest of the temple,” Mathur was quoted as saying by the news agency PTI.
Earlier, the notice was served to “Bajrang Bali, Sabalgarh” by the senior section engineer of the Jhansi railway division.
The structure was to be removed for the construction of the Sheopur-Gwalior broad-gauge line.
The new notice, issued on February 10, was served in the name of Harishankar Sharma, the priest of the temple.
Absurd case in the past
Earlier in 2007, Lord Ram and Hanuman were ordered to appear in court if notices issued in their names by a judge in Dhanbad “reach” them. A district sub-judge gave the order on a petition over a dispute involving a temple at Dahaiya locality where Lord Ram and Lord Hanuman were worshipped.
The court staff even went to the temple to serve the notices but there was no one to receive them.
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A villager, Puran Chandra Halder, who regularly held Durga puja adjacent to the temple, petitioned the Dhanbad district commissioner in 1987 to declare the temple a public property. The ruling went in his favour.
The Pathak family then approached the Patna High Court citing a survey settlement of 1922 and obtained a degree in their favour in 1990.
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Following this, in 1993, Halder petitioned the district sub judge to declare the temple a public property and made Lord Ram and Lord Hanuman as parties in the case. The temple was declared public property by the sub judge’s court in 2005.
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