Ram Rahim owns 55 acres near Hyderabad too

Convicted spiritual leader Gurmeet Ram Rahim’s Dera Sacha Sauda owns a 55-acre farm land in Nalgonda district on the outskirts of Hyderabad. The caretaker here says that the property is meant for construction of a college and school.

The revenue officials here verified the documents of the property on Saturday following the mayhem created by the rapist Baba’s followers in three states.

The Ashram is located in Veliminedu village in Nalgonda district adjoining national highway about 70 km from Hyderabad. The Ashram as it is called has only compound walls and a small room for caretaker Shyamlal, who shuttles from Veliminedu and the city. The value of the piece of land runs into crores as it is close to the proposed aerospace park by the Telangana government.

According to Chityala Mandal development officer Vijayalakshmi who has visited the Ashram, there is no attachment order from the government but she has collected information and kept all the records ready. She found that there is a 9-acre piece of land which is an assigned land meaning that it is illegal to purchase one. The 55-acre land is registered in different names but protected by a common compound wall.

Village sarpanch Maddela Mallaiah told reporters that the largest piece, an 11-acre plot was registered in the name of one I. Venkata Gandhi. “The 55-acre land was bought at different times from 2007 to 2015. The land is farm land as per our records as no mutation was sought so far,” Mallaiah said. The villagers say that the money for the purchase and registration of the land has come from the Ashram Headquarters.

Caretaker Shyamlal who is a native of Haryana says that Baba has visited Hyderabad several times since 2002. However, Baba stayed in hotels where he conducted Satsangs. His last visit to Hyderabad was in 2012. Shyamlal who came to Hyderabad in 1987 become Baba’s follower in 2007. He says that batches of Babas’ followers visit the Ashram every fortnight for few days.

The Ashram has so far donated for construction of a cycle stand in the local Zilla Parishad high school, granite flooring in the local Ram mandir and a Vivekananda statue in the village.