The Madras High Court on Wednesday, May 15, 2024, stayed the operation of an eviction order passed by the president of the South Seppalanatham village panchayat in Cuddalore district, directing a trust, Suddha Sanmarga Nilayam in Vadalur, to vacate 1.56 acres of land declared as government waste land in the revenue records.
A Division Bench of Justices P.T. Asha and N. Senthilkumar granted the interim stay since a civil suit filed by Suddha Sanmarga Nilayam, claiming title over the property, was pending before a District Munsif court in Neyveli and the Virudhachalam Tahsildar too, was seized of a request to make changes in the revenue records.
In an affidavit filed on behalf of the petitioner trust, its secretary R. Selvaraj (80), said, the trust was founded 73 years ago to propagate the philosophical ideas and teachings of Saint Ramalinga Adigalar alias Vallalar, through the establishment of educational and charitable institutions.
