Shivalinga seems earlier than courtroom after summons despatched to Chhattisgarh temple

By ANI

RAIGARH: In a weird incident, a Shivalinga, which was uprooted from a temple in Raigarh district of Chhattisgarh, was delivered to the Tehsil workplace right here to seem earlier than the courtroom after a summon was issued towards the Shiva temple by the income officers.

A number of days in the past, the income officers of Raigarh had given discover to Shiva temple to seem within the courtroom. On March 25, the villagers uprooted the Shivalinga at Shiva temple in Raigarh and carried on a cart to current it within the courtroom. However, the listening to was cancelled and the date of listening to was set for April 13.

“Our villagers and a Shiva Temple were given the notice to appear before the court by a Tehsil Office and a fine of Rs 10000 was also imposed. So we appeared in the court with the Shivalinga. But after waiting for hours, a notice was posted that the next hearing will be on April 13. We were not informed about this earlier. Sudha Rajwade, who is a resident of our village had moved the petition to the High Court. We urged her not to do this but she refused and said that she is a government official and is doing her work,” stated native councillor Sapna Siddar.

Shiva temple at Kauvakunda in Raigarh city was served a discover complaining of unlawful occupation.

The Tehsil workplace had additionally issued a discover to villagers and summoned them. The Tehsildar had additionally warned everybody within the discover that failure to seem on the listening to might end in a Rs 10,000 superb and eviction from the premises.

The incident got here to gentle after a petition was moved within the Chhattisgarh High Court concerning unlawful possession of presidency property by Sudha Rajwade, a authorities official, after which the administration issued a discover.