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Appeal by Buddhist organisation dismissed

NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court has dismissed an appeal by a Buddhist organisation seeking direction to restrain a Buddhist monk from interfering with a 1,600-square yards piece of land and the property built over it in the Munirka village in South Delhi.

The appellant, Indian Buddhist Society, submitted that the land belonged to it and the monk had twice threatened to take it into physical possession in the past and there was also likelihood of a similar threat in future as well. The civil court and the appellate court above it had dismissed the suit of the Society saying that it was a government land. The two courts had also said that the plaintiff had also failed to produce the relevant papers to prove its possession of the land.

The monk also admitted in his submission that the land is a public property and the plaintiff had been using it for religious and charitable purposes.

The property is under the care of a trust called Buddhist Vihar Charitable Trust.

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