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Ayodhya, Dalit land and dispute

Caste also plays an important role in the purchase and sale of land. The order given by the Uttar Pradesh government to investigate the land given to the temples by Maharishi Ramayana Vidyapeeth Trust for the construction of Ram temple is very shocking. The matter is being investigated as to how some high officials and politicians flouting the law collected huge amount in the purchase and sale of this land.

Earlier it was felt that the importance of caste and religion in life is only till marriage and job. But recently, according to the controversy that has taken place in the land related matter related to the famous Ram temple of Uttar Pradesh, caste also plays an important role in the purchase and sale of land. The order given by the Uttar Pradesh government to investigate the land given to the temples by Maharishi Ramayana Vidyapeeth Trust for the construction of Ram temple is very shocking. The matter is being investigated as to how some high officials and politicians flouting the law collected huge amount in the purchase and sale of this land. While buying the land of the original owners of this land by the trust, the land rules were like this.

The real owners of this land were Dalits. Remind that according to the land revenue rule passed by the Uttar Pradesh government in 2016, if the owner of any land is not from the scheduled caste, then he can neither transfer nor sell that land to anyone. Can gift or lease to anyone and not have any relation with him. Prior permission of the local collector is required before doing so.

The collector can also allow him to sell his land only in five circumstances. In the first situation, apart from having no heir, that person is living as a normal citizen in any other state or his family is suffering from life-threatening disease or he wants to replace that land with some other land and the area of ​​his land is 1. Not less than 26 hectares. Remind that before 2016, the Zamindari Abolition Act 1950 was in force in Uttar Pradesh. The same law was in force in 1992 when the trust’s people bought land from some people, including Dalits, in 1992.

According to Section 157A of the Zamindari Abolition Act, no person belonging to a Scheduled Caste has the right to mortgage or gift his land to any non-scheduled caste person. Anyway, if the size of the land is less than 1.26 hectares, then the collector also does not allow it to be sold or transferred to any other person, whereas in 1992 this trust gave permission to a dozen Scheduled Castes and Tribes people of Barhata Manjha village of Ayodhya. 21 bighas of land was purchased from He ignored the laws while doing so. Four years after the trust bought the land, this trust has donated the same land. The land was transferred in his name despite no prior permission to do so.

In the name of Ronghai, a Dalit employee of his organization, got this land in his name in the papers. He got the Vidyapeeth Vedic school established and instituted among the objectives of his trust, which he has not done till date.

Now questions are being raised about the future of the land purchased by the trust from Ronghai. Legally, land purchased from Dalits or donated from them is eventually given to the government when no one else has claimed ownership rights over it. The state government has ordered an inquiry into the officers of Uttar Pradesh who have bought land in the name of their relatives as the assembly elections are due in the state in the next two months. Radheshyam Mishra, special secretary of the state’s revenue department, is investigating the scam that how the top officials of the state, ignoring the rule, looted such a huge amount in the name of Ram. The land was purchased in the name of Rajesh Mishra, brother-in-law of Indra Pratap Tiwari alias Khabbu Tiwari, who was an MLA from Gosaiganj assembly of Ayodhya district.

Seeing all this reminds me of an incident. A few years ago one of my senior colleagues started searching to buy land in the village, then one of our senior colleague said that before buying the land, find out the caste of its owner because this land should not belong to a scheduled caste person because legally. We cannot buy that land. Such cases have also come to notice when the owner of such land has taken back his land. So we bought the land after all the investigation. However, after all this, we got caught in a fraud and took a vow not to buy land in the village from that day. We only know what kind of situation we went through during that time. Since then he vowed that in future he would not buy land and property in the village. Now it remains to be seen what happens to the people who bought the land of Dalits.

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