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Suicide Victim’s Kin Continue Stir, Temple’s Mahant Gets Govt Notice | Jaipur News
JAIPUR: For the fourth consecutive day on Thursday, the family of the 47-year-old tea vendor who committed suicide in Chandi Ki Taksal area of the Walled City continued with its sit-in protest at the place where he hanged himself.
The family members have been demanding action against the accused people, compensation and government job to a family member, permission to construct house and resignation of cabinet minister Mahesh Joshi who they allege did not let the victim construct the house.
After an on-the-spot post-mortem in the evening, the family again kept the body in the freezer of the local transport company on the premises of which the tea vendor committed suicide.
On Thursday evening, officials from the local self-government department issued a notice to Lalit Kumar Sharma, the mahant of Girdhari ji temple, which is adjacent to the tea vendor’s house, in the case of alleged illegal construction of a hotel on the temple land.
The notice states that Sharma must appear before the regional deputy director of the department at 11am on Friday to present his side regarding the matter.
People living in Girdhari ji temple said that the victim’s family had been living on rent on the temple’s property since the 1980s. The hotel that was demolished by JMC Heritage on Wednesday was also being constructed on the temple’s property, they said.
“This temple is almost 250 years old, and we have been living here for nine generations. The victim’s father had rented a property from us and had been living here since 1980s. We had started renting out property because we did not have any other means of earning. We rented out temple property to the hotel owner also,” said Ravi Sharma.
Sharma said that the tea vendor stopped paying rent a few years ago, and then the matter was taken to court.
“After the district court and the high court ruled in our favour, in 2017 the Supreme Court gave a judgment stating that they (tea vendor family) must vacate the house. Ram Kishor Meena, the father of the deceased, gave an undertaking agreeing to the same in the Supreme Court. But the same year, on the advice or misguidance of someone, Meena secured a land lease for the plot which is the temple’s property,” Sharma said.
Reacting to the comments, Anita Meena, sister of the deceased, said, “The hotel owners and members of Girdhari ji temple can say whatever they want as they have money and power. We have our truth and we will stick to that.”
The family members have been demanding action against the accused people, compensation and government job to a family member, permission to construct house and resignation of cabinet minister Mahesh Joshi who they allege did not let the victim construct the house.
After an on-the-spot post-mortem in the evening, the family again kept the body in the freezer of the local transport company on the premises of which the tea vendor committed suicide.
On Thursday evening, officials from the local self-government department issued a notice to Lalit Kumar Sharma, the mahant of Girdhari ji temple, which is adjacent to the tea vendor’s house, in the case of alleged illegal construction of a hotel on the temple land.
The notice states that Sharma must appear before the regional deputy director of the department at 11am on Friday to present his side regarding the matter.
People living in Girdhari ji temple said that the victim’s family had been living on rent on the temple’s property since the 1980s. The hotel that was demolished by JMC Heritage on Wednesday was also being constructed on the temple’s property, they said.
“This temple is almost 250 years old, and we have been living here for nine generations. The victim’s father had rented a property from us and had been living here since 1980s. We had started renting out property because we did not have any other means of earning. We rented out temple property to the hotel owner also,” said Ravi Sharma.
Sharma said that the tea vendor stopped paying rent a few years ago, and then the matter was taken to court.
“After the district court and the high court ruled in our favour, in 2017 the Supreme Court gave a judgment stating that they (tea vendor family) must vacate the house. Ram Kishor Meena, the father of the deceased, gave an undertaking agreeing to the same in the Supreme Court. But the same year, on the advice or misguidance of someone, Meena secured a land lease for the plot which is the temple’s property,” Sharma said.
Reacting to the comments, Anita Meena, sister of the deceased, said, “The hotel owners and members of Girdhari ji temple can say whatever they want as they have money and power. We have our truth and we will stick to that.”
