{"id":7505,"date":"2009-02-25T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-25T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/02\/25\/devotees-say-hindu-temple-lands-in-karachi-were-stolen\/"},"modified":"2009-02-25T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-25T12:00:00","slug":"devotees-say-hindu-temple-lands-in-karachi-were-stolen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/02\/25\/devotees-say-hindu-temple-lands-in-karachi-were-stolen\/","title":{"rendered":"Devotees Say Hindu Temple Lands in Karachi Were Stolen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.newstrackindia.com\/newsdetails\/68485\">www.newstrackindia.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">KARACHI, INDIA, February 18, 2009: A historical temple of Lord Shiva in the Jamshed Town area of Karachi has been the victim of a land grab. Built in the late 1930&#8217;s, the temple occupied over two acres of land, but most of that has now been captured by builders.<\/p>\n<p>The temple caretaker, Ashok Kumar, claimed the builders have occupied the land with the support of Bhagwandas Chawla, former politician and father of the Provincial Minister for Excise and Taxation. &#8220;In the past, we requested Bhagwandas to help the temple committee so that the temple&#8217;s land could be saved. We even gave him the necessary details and documents, however, since then we have not seen him and later heard that an influential builder paid him a heavy sum of money for permission to use the land.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Attempts to recover the temple&#8217;s property from the land grabbers have not been successful. &#8220;The temple committee has approached different ministers for help in reclaiming the temple&#8217;s land but even the Hindu ministers refused to help,&#8221; Kumar said.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.newstrackindia.com KARACHI, INDIA, February 18, 2009: A historical temple of Lord Shiva in the Jamshed Town area of Karachi has,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}