Mangaluru, Sept. 17 -- Prominent writer and Kendra Sahitya Akademi awardee Lakshmisha Tholpadi, together with a group of social activists, has appealed to Home Minister Amit Shah to order a detailed investigation by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) into alleged largescale land-grabbing, financial irregularities and administrative lapses by the Dharmasthala temple administration.
K Somanath Nayak, president of the Nagarika Seva Trust, charged that more than 1,050 acres of land, traditionally belonging to the historic Manjunathaswamy and Annappaswamy temples in Dharmasthala, had been unlawfully declared as private holdings by the temple authorities through what he described as "false declarations and manipulative records."He alleged that an ...