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AYODHYA: A civil suit has been filed against Ram Temple Trust secretary Champat Rai in Faizabad district court by Kashi seer, Shankaracharya Avi Mukteshwaranand, and Shiv Sena leader Santosh Dubey, seeking scrapping of the sale deed of 30,830sqft of the 350-year-old Fakire Ram Mandir, adjacent to Ramjanmabhoomi, citing ownership of the deity.
The land in question was bought by the Ram Temple Trust for Rs 3.71crore on March 27, a day after mutation was ordered in favour of Mahant Raghuvar Sharan by sub-district magistrate, Sadar tehsil.
On Thursday, Faizabad civil judge, senior division, Sanjeev Tripathi, issued notices to Champat Rai, Mahant Raghuvar Sharan, who sold the temple premises to the Trust, priest Kripa Shankar Das and patron Ram Kishor Singh. The court summoned all parties, including Champat Rai, the Kashi seer and Santosh Dubey, formerly a Babri demolition accused, on August 6.
With the probability of the Fakire Ram temple being demolished in keeping with the expansion of the Ramjanmabhoomi complex, counsel for Dubey and Kashi seer, Tarunjeet Varma, sought continuance of rituals and a stay on any move to raze the temple. Talking to TOI, Varma said, “We raised objections before court that no one has the right to sell off a temple as it’s in the ownership of the deity till the existence of the universe and nobody can sell the temple’s property or donate it. It was sold to Ram Mandir Trust on March 27 by Mahant Raghuvar Sharan on consent of the priest and its patron. We have also demanded cancellation of sale deed and the mutation ordered in favour of Mahant Raghuvar Sharan. We also pleaded for appointment of a receiver for Ram Fakire temple as sale and purchase of this temple is illegal due to a pending litigation over the mahant title.”
The centuries-old Fakire Ram temple campus with 50 rooms and straddling a vast area on the north-eastern flank of Ramjanmabhoomi was the very shrine where the idol of Ram Lalla was hastily shifted when the Babri mosque domes were being demolished in 1992. Also, its mythological importance cannot be dismissed as Lord Ram stayed here for a night before going on exile.
The land in question was bought by the Ram Temple Trust for Rs 3.71crore on March 27, a day after mutation was ordered in favour of Mahant Raghuvar Sharan by sub-district magistrate, Sadar tehsil.
On Thursday, Faizabad civil judge, senior division, Sanjeev Tripathi, issued notices to Champat Rai, Mahant Raghuvar Sharan, who sold the temple premises to the Trust, priest Kripa Shankar Das and patron Ram Kishor Singh. The court summoned all parties, including Champat Rai, the Kashi seer and Santosh Dubey, formerly a Babri demolition accused, on August 6.
With the probability of the Fakire Ram temple being demolished in keeping with the expansion of the Ramjanmabhoomi complex, counsel for Dubey and Kashi seer, Tarunjeet Varma, sought continuance of rituals and a stay on any move to raze the temple. Talking to TOI, Varma said, “We raised objections before court that no one has the right to sell off a temple as it’s in the ownership of the deity till the existence of the universe and nobody can sell the temple’s property or donate it. It was sold to Ram Mandir Trust on March 27 by Mahant Raghuvar Sharan on consent of the priest and its patron. We have also demanded cancellation of sale deed and the mutation ordered in favour of Mahant Raghuvar Sharan. We also pleaded for appointment of a receiver for Ram Fakire temple as sale and purchase of this temple is illegal due to a pending litigation over the mahant title.”
The centuries-old Fakire Ram temple campus with 50 rooms and straddling a vast area on the north-eastern flank of Ramjanmabhoomi was the very shrine where the idol of Ram Lalla was hastily shifted when the Babri mosque domes were being demolished in 1992. Also, its mythological importance cannot be dismissed as Lord Ram stayed here for a night before going on exile.
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