Visva-Bharati has issued a word to Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen announcing the valuable college will take ownership of .thirteen decimal of the 1.38 acre leased land from his ancestral assets on its campus at Santiniketan in West Bengal on May 6
The word, a replica of which HT has seen, accusing Sen of occupying public land became issued on Wednesday beneathneath the Public Premises (Eviction and Unauthorised Occupants) Act. Sen, 89, is withinside the US and generally visits his ancestral domestic in Santiniketan in winter.
“There are directives/advisories from the Gov`t of India/West Bengal, reviews of the professional committees on protection and renovation of property of Visva-Bharati, and the CAG`s audit observations concerning the need and urgency of casting off unauthorized career or encroachment from the general public premises of Visva-Bharati,” the order stated.
“Now, the query is which element covering .thirteen decimals vicinity withinside the scheduled public premises can be recovered from Sri Sen.” The word stated Visva-Bharati owns plots at the west and east facets of the premises. “On the southern side, Sri Sen and his own circle of relatives personal their non-public lands. Sri Sen should have participated in joint survey/listening to, and so forth and suggest his desire.”
It noted the absence of such desire and examine of survey reviews and get admission to to Sen`s ancestral residence and stated it’s been determined that .thirteen decimals of land are to be recovered.
Visva-Bharati vice-chancellor Bidyut Chakrabarty has claimed Sen`s father, Ashutosh Sen, a professor on the college, rented simplest 1.25-acre land on a 99-12 months rent in 1943 and thus .thirteen decimal ought to be again.
Three letters had been despatched to Sen on this regard due to the fact that January 24. The first eviction word became issued to him on March 17. Sen despatched his legal professionals to the college hearings. He again to the United States in February. Visva-Bharati officers did now no longer touch upon the sparkling eviction word.
Gora Chand Chakrabarty, Sen`s lawyer, stated he became indisposed and does now no longer recognize approximately the sparkling word. “I did now no longer obtain any e mail from Visva-Bharati until Wednesday night.”
On January 30, leader minister Mamata Banerjee met Sen, who has been a critic of the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Union government, and surpassed over a country land and sales branch document displaying that every one land blanketed beneathneath his assets belong to him via a mutation performed in 2006. Visva-Bharati challenged the document.
In an in advance word, the college stated it has come to the information that Sen does now no longer need to stand an inquiry and that no in addition possibility for displaying motive or attending a private listening to will be allowed.
Sen despatched an e mail to Visva-Bharati on April 17 announcing the college`s declare on a part of the leased land has no prison standing. “I am the holder of the land, and it became handed directly to me after the dying of my parents, Ashutosh Sen and Amita Sen. They additionally bought different land in near proximity to the leased land.”
He introduced using the land has remained the equal for over eighty years. “Any opposite declare to this leased land earlier than the expiry of the rent can’t stand,” Sen wrote. He introduced he might go to Santiniketan in June.
Chakrabarty stated that primarily based totally on his client`s appeal, a Justice of the Peace issued an order asking police to preserve peace and tranquillity at Pratichi, Sen`s ancestral domestic. “That order continues to be valid.” Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore based the college in 1921 and the Prime Minister is its chancellor.