The Andhra Pradesh state Endowment department has set up a committee with two officials to probe the tampering of 840 acres of land worth about Rs 12,000 crore from the Simhachalam temple assets records, a famous shrine in AP.Endowment department special commissioner Arjuna Rao recently released information related to this.He said that the evidence of tampering of records was found in the temple asset records between 2013–19.
Records show that the Simhachalam temple had 11,118 acres of land in 2010.
But, by 2016, the temple records exhibited only 10,278 acres of land.Endowment department officials recently found that 840 acres of land were removed from the temple asset records.
The government has launched an inquiry with the district authorities and found preliminary evidence of tampering with records during the TDP government.The MANSAS Trust has been the subject of numerous allegations and controversies over the past few years.
The non-auditing of the trust for the last 16 years has raised many suspicions.
The YCP government has directed the trust to conduct a full audit of the lands.
It is a known fact that recently, the AP High court issued orders reappointing Ashok Gajapathiraju as the Chairman of MANSAS Trust.
