Ramakrishna Mission seek security cover from mafia fraudsters

Local officer bears of Ramakrishan Mission draw the attention of
state and police about security and threat to lives of its inmates and monks
living in Shimla Ashrama.

Secretary of Ramakrishna Mission Shimla Swami Tanmahimananda said in a press note  
here today that they are concerned over maintaining the sanctity of the temple as some fraudsters
and mafia are creating trouble for them .
He said that mission was taking care of a Brahma temple built in 1887 by the Himalayan Brahmo Samaj, Shimla (HBS) on 6 acres of land on the northern side of the Mall Road, below the AG office.
” We are living in constant threat after April 22, 2021 as a lady and few others are troubling them time and again.” 
  Recently,  few ladies( daughters of a former caretaker )  abused and attacked the monks and had even used ferocious dogs in the attack. On 19th April 2021, a complaint was filed with the SP, Shimla regarding this matter.
 The next day on 20th April, 2021 at 9.40 am (0940hrs), when Secretary Swami was meditating in the
temple, four ladies and a boy with four ferocious pet dogs entered the Temple complex. When a monk
tried to restrain a dog from entering the Temple, one lady attacked him and started abusing and
slapping him.

He said that a complaint was filed by him and other monks of Shimla Ashrama on April 22, 2021 after they were abused by few people who turned up in temple. An FIR also registered against accused under sections 295, 323, 504,  506 of the IPC at police station Baluganj.
To counter this FIR, the same lady has also filed a false counter FIR, against the aggrieved monk,
under sections 354-A, 354-C, 509 of the IPC, in the Mahilla Police Station. Since the cases were
not being properly investigated by the local Police, the matter was taken up with the higher
officials of the police department, who forwarded both the case FIRs for investigation to CID,
Shimla.

Despite filing of the FIR, the same ladies sent by the mafia of Vishal Sharma@Badri,
continued to misbehave with monks and devotees of the Ramakrishna Mission and continued to
bring their dogs to the Ashrama campus.

On the 10th of August, the same ladies again attacked and abused the 82 year old wife of HBS
Trustee-cum-President Sh. Vijay Pandit, who happens to be a senior lawyer of the HP High Court.
Sh. Vijay Pandit is presently indisposed as he is nursing his kidney problem in Chandigarh and is on dialysis.

The matter was again brought to the notice of the Police. CM of HP felt that the monks and inmates
of the Ashrama live under constant threat to their lives and fear of implication in false cases of molestation,
by the female members of the fraudsters mafia. The Hon’ble CM accordingly ordered to provide 24 hour Police
Security to the Ashrama.

On 14th August 2021, as per the orders of the Hon’ble CM of HP, the DGP of HP Police
along with the SP, Shimla, visited the campus and instructed both parties to maintain peace and
not to trespass.

Then the same lady, who also happens to be an advocate, started misbehaving
with the DGP of HP, in the presence of all and did not adhere to his orders. Being an advocate
does not give any person the right to attack monks, desecrate religious places and misbehave with
senior Government and police officers.

 So the appropriate police action against the concerned lady was fully justified. Police took action strictly
as per the law, after recording the statements of monks and witnesses present.

We request the Government and police of Himachal Pradesh to provide security and protect the lives
 of the inmates and monks of the Ashrama, maintain the sanctity of the temple and ensure that these fraudsters
and mafia do not repeat such incidents in future.

We appreciate the timely and effective action taken by the Government and the police in
particular, for maintaining peace and harmony in the area and for preserving the ancient culture
and religious institutions of our nation.  

Background or history .
 The Ramakrishna Mission is a registered society founded by Swami Vivekananda on 1st
May 1897. This organization along with the sister organization viz. Ramakrishna Math (a
registered trust, which was also started by Swami Vivekananda in the year 1901) forms the core
of a worldwide spiritual movement (known as Ramakrishna Movement or Vedanta Movement),
which aims at the harmony of religions, harmony of the East and the West, harmony of the
ancient and the modern, spiritual fulfilment, all-round development of human faculties, social
equality and peace for all humanity, without any distinctions of creed, caste, race or nationality.
Sri Keshab Chandra Sen was closely associated with Sri Ramakrishna and had started the Nava
Vidhan Brahmo Samaj.

The devotees of Sri Ramakrishna are familiar with him and his organisation, through the life of Sri Ramakrishna
 and the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna. Keshab Chandra Sen and other leaders of the Brahmo Samaj used to
 come to Sri Ramakrishna and were greatly transformed in their breadth of thought.

Even Swami Vivekananda and some others were members of Brahmo Samaj who later became disciples of
Sri Ramakrishna. Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission have about 240 centres including sub-centres
in 25 countries.

In 1886, Lala Kanshi Ram, Secretary to The Himalayan Brahmo Samaj, Shimla (HBS)
purchased a plot of 6 acres of land on the northern side of the Mall Road, below the AG office
and built a Brahmo Temple in 1887.

Later on, he authored a Trust to manage the said property and temple in 1897 and registered the same
 in 1898 at Shimla. The main objective of the Trust is to utilise the entire property of the Trust for Divine
service or worship of one true God, by the members of the congregation of the said Mandir and also by
the public of Shimla and adjoining places. Three of the present trustees are direct descendants of the
 author of the Trust.

The Trustees and Managing Committee of the HBS have the power and authority to all intents and
purpose whatsoever, with the custody and safe preservation of the present and future properties
and in furtherance of its objects and for its maintenance and improvement as per the Trust Deed.

The Managing Committee of the Trust is functional since 1882 which is backed by detailed
century-old records and is presently headed by Sh. Vijay Pandit, Senior lawyer of HP High Court,
in the capacity of President-cum-Trustee.

In 2011 the present trustees of the “Himalayan Brahmo Samaj” (HBS), decided to hand over the
 property to the Ramakrishna Mission, since the aims and objectives of both were very similar.

Due to technical reasons, they initially gifted the Temple and some buildings to start a branch centre of
the Ramakrishna Mission at Shimla. Accordingly on 15th November 2014 the Ramakrishna Mission started
functioning on these premises.

Sh. Vishal Sharma@Badri, the son of the then Caretaker/Mali Sh. Mast Ram Sharma, of
Himalayan Brahmo Samaj, Shimla was appointed in 1990 as Supervisor of the Samaj Estate, to
work in collaboration with his father.

 Ever since his appointment, he had started creating trouble for the said Trustees by encroaching upon
the land of the HSB, by making unauthorized construction and inducting sub-tenants.

From 2007-08, Sh. Vishal Sharma further started interfering in the affairs of the Himalayan Brahmo Samaj,
Shimla, by instituting false legal cases against the Trustees and office bearers of the HSB. He also floated a
parallel organization with a look-alike name of the Trust, as branch centre of the West Bengal based Brahmo Conference.

This so called Brahmo Conference held two conferences in Shimla under Vishal Sharma@Badri
and planted some of their men as office-bearers of the parallel branch centre and they are illegally
holding some properties of the HBS. He also joined hands with two more organisations of West
Bengal who are backing him and his associates financially to grab the property of HBS.

The HBS filed a Civil Suit No. 61 of 2011 (New No. 3-S/10 of 14/11) dated 2.8.2011 in
the High Court of Himachal Pradesh against Sri Badri Vishal Sharma etc (Defendants) and
prayed for passing an injunction order to restrain the Defendants from using the name and Logo
of HBS and also restrain the Defendants from in any manner interfering with the possession of
the HBS Applicant) with respect to the HBS property at Shimla.

 In response to the above suit, the Hon’ble High Court of H.P. passed an injunction order dated
16.8.2011 in favour of HBS, the main part of which reads as “the defendants are restrained from using
the name of Plaintiff No. 1 and interfering in the suit property.

Till further orders, the parties are directed to maintain status quo with regard to nature and possession of the
suit land, as per details given in the plaint.” But Sh. Vishal Sharma@Badri and others continued their illegal
activity even after the above orders were delivered by the Hon’ble High Court.

The fraudsters, despite the court order, impersonating themselves as office bearers and
Trustees of the said Samaj, filed a Civil Suit No. 7-S/01 of 2015 in the court of the Ld. Addl.
District Judge-II, Shimla, by forging documents of the Trust and obtained an ex-party stay against
the de jure trustees of HBS. Ld. Addl. District Judge-II, Shimla in 2019, in an application,
decided that he had no jurisdiction to entertain this suit. Resultantly, the stay order became
infructuous and was nullified.

The impersonator had since moved before the HP High Court against the said order and no stay has
been granted in their favour. Against the illegal action of the fraudsters, a complaint was also filed
before the Police in 2011 by the Secretary of the HBS.

The Local Police Station had filed a charge sheet against Vishal Sharma@Badri and all the fraudsters,
in case FIR No 218, dated 24th September 2011, under sections 420, 448, 467, 468, 471, 120B, 201 of the IPC,
in the CJM court, Shimla.

The main allegations against these fraudsters are duplicating the Trust Deed, impersonating, opening a
bank account by forging documents, etc.

After starting the Ramakrishna Mission, Shimla (a branch centre of Ramakrishna Mission
having its headquarters at P.O. Belur Math, District Howrah, P.S. Bally, West Bengal, India
711202) in 2014, these fraudsters were aggressively trying to defame the HBS members and the
monks of the Ramakrishna Mission.