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As OTV digs deeper and deeper into the land dealings more and more startling facts are being unearthed everyday. It is a Pandora box. Not one or two but eight plots under Bali Sahi which originally belonged to Lord Jagannath and were registered in the name of Govardhan Peeth, the abode of Puri Sankaracharya Niranjan Dev Tirth and Sankaracharya Bharatikrushna Swamy have been usurped by the unscrupulpous and dealers hand in glove with employees of revenue department and Puri municipality. Records in possession of the settlement department revealed that the plots were registered against the names of private persons in 1989 and 1990. Strangely, the local tehsil office has no information about the dealings.
In another development, Priyadarshan Pattanaik, convener of Jagannath Sena, a socio-cultural organisation, today filed a complaint against panchayatraj minister and former Puri municipality chairman Maheswar Mohanty at the Sea Beach police station and alleged that the minister was a party to the transfer of Swargadwar land and everything happened during his tenure as chairman. A Public Interest Litigation(PIL) too has been filed in the Odisha High Court for a thorough probe into the land transfer matter.
