The Allahabad High Court on Friday directed the sub-divisional magistrate (SDM), Chhata, Mathura, to correct revenue records to show a plot of land, which was mischievously marked as a graveyard in 2004, in the name of the Banke Bihari Ji Maharaj temple.
Allowing the writ petition filed by Sri Bihari Ji Seva Trust, the court set aside those orders by which the land of Mandir Bankey Bihari Maharaj was mutated in the name of a graveyard.
The court had earlier directed revenue officials to produce entire records in connection with the change in the ownership of the Banke Bihari Ji Maharaj temple land. The tehsil authorities, however, could not explain how and by which order the records were changed.
As per petitioners, one Bhola Khan Pathan in collusion with state government employees of the revenue department had got the land of Mandir Bake Bihari Ji Maharaj in 2004 registered as a graveyard.
When objections were raised by the temple side, the entry of land as a graveyard was removed but the mandir was not shown as the owner of the land.
The land in contention was plot no. 1081, situated in Shahpur village in Chhata tehsil of Mathura district.
