Bengaluru sources stated that a 62 foot tall and 750-tonne giant Hanuman statue recently transported to Kacharakanahalli in Bengaluru’s HBR Layout on a 300 wheel truck has found itself in yet another controversy. Accordingly MK Jagadeesh, Assistant Commissioner of the Revenue Department, Bengaluru North has filed a complaint against 18 people stating that the Rama Chaithanya Vardhini Trust, which commissioned the project, has chosen to install the statue on disputed land.
Meanwhile the land marked for the statue is on the premises of Kodandaswami Temple. Moreover since 2015, the Muzrai Department has been locked in a dispute with the temple trust claiming that the land is a ‘government lake area’ as per revenue records. Furthermore the same year, the Karnataka High Court issued a stay order that the 'status quo' should be maintained on the disputed land.
As per report the statue was stalled at Hoskote in rural Bengaluru by
police over fears of poll code violation. Moreover Jagadeesh alleges that when
the statue was stopped in Hoskote over fears of poll code violation, the people
transporting it pledged in writing to Bengaluru Police Commissioner that the
statue would be erected in Survey number 135 and not Survey Number 153 which is
under contention as it comes under a lake bed area.
