The owner of the land at the centre of a Buddhist shrine-Gurdwara row at an altitude of about 7,000 ft in Arunachal Pradesh has asked the Indian Army to either compensate for using the land or vacate, a report prepared by the local administration has said.
The Shi-Yomi district’s Deputy Commissioner, Liyi Bagra prepared the report on the basis of the meeting between the representatives of a community-based organisation of the local Buddhist Memba people and a two-member team of the National Commission for Minorities (NCM) on May 18.
The report also said no representative from the Sikh community or the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC), which had claimed the Buddhists had taken over the gurdwara near Shi-Yomi’s Mechukha town, attended the meeting.
