Overview

• Executive Officer L. Rama Devi fainted during a scuffle with villagers in Purushottapatnam and is in stable condition at a Bhadrachalam hospital.
• Temple staff were enforcing a court order to halt unauthorized construction on 889.5 acres of Devasthanam land near the Telangana–Andhra Pradesh border when the clash occurred.
• Telangana’s Endowment Department has pledged to carry out High Court directives on land restoration and threatened preventive detention for those obstructing the process.
• Devotees and temple authorities have called on Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu to deploy immediate protective measures for the disputed property.
• Encroachments on the temple’s lands have grown over decades since the 2014 state bifurcation transferred surrounding villages to Andhra Pradesh.