Temple on government land to be razed

Directing the authorities to evict the encroachers and remove the temple in the next 15 days, a division bench of justices M Venugopal and S Vaidyanathan, said, “If a person intends to build a temple for a deity, he should ensure that such construction is not an unauthorised one.” Noting that any person, who has devotion to the deity, will not raise an unauthorised construction, the bench came down heavily on such encroachers saying, “People are constructing temples on the roadside, of course, mostly by encroaching public land, only to get fringe benefits.”