The Congress on Monday urged the Supreme Court to take cognisance of an alleged land scam in Ayodhya in connection with the Ram temple being built there.
The development came after the Ayodhya Development Authority released a list accusing 40 persons, including Mayor Rishikesh Upadhyay, MLA Ved Prakash Gupta and a former legislator Gorakhnath Baba, of corruption related to the temple plot. All three of them belong to the Bharatiya Janata Party.
The BJP, however, has raised questions about the authenticity of the list, reported the Hindustan Times.
The Congress had first raised the matter in June last year alleging that BJP leader Deep Narayan had bought 890 square metres of land in Ayodhya for Rs 20 lakh in February and sold it to the Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust that is managing the construction of the temple for Rs 2.5 crore, making a profit of 1,250% in just 79 days.
Congress spokesperson Randeep Surjewala had alleged that Narayan bought the land at a price of Rs 2,247 per square metre, whereas its collector rate, according to the sale deed, was Rs 4,000 per square metre. Narayan then sold off the land to the Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust at a rate of Rs 28,090 per square metre, Surjewala had alleged.
He had identified Narayan as a member of the BJP Information Technology cell and nephew of the Ayodhya mayor.
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