Mysore/Mysuru: City’s noted Advocate S. Arunkumar, who also addressed the press meet at RK Ashram yesterday, said that the landed property which was handed over by the Government to RK Ashram for the construction of Viveka Memorial indeed was with the Government for over a century. Pointing out that an Anathalaya for housing poor Hindu boys existed at this site, he argued that the site did not belong to any Mutt or community.
Noting that many poor boys from all communities stayed in this Orphanage, for which there are Government documents, Arunkumar said that as per the available records, Niranjana Mutt did not belong to any particular community. Contending that this was a private property, which the Government took over its possession after acquisition, payment of compensation and allotment of alternative land to the owner, he said that after all this, the land naturally belonged to Government.
