Vacate Santiniketan plot by May 6: VBU notice to Amartya Sen
According to the notice, Sen has been ordered to vacate the property by May 6 or within 15 days of the publication of the last order.
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Nobel laureate Amartya Sen.Days after economist Amartya Sen said the institution’s claim on his ancestral property had “no legal standing”, Visva-Bharati University Thursday served another notice to the Nobel Laureate urging him to vacate the 13 decimal land which the institution alleged that he had been occupying illegally. According to the notice, Sen has been ordered to vacate the property by May 6 or within 15 days of the publication of the last order.
The notice stated that in case of refusal or failure to comply with the order, “Amartya Kumar Sen and all concerned persons are liable to be evicted from the said premises if need be, by use of such force as may be necessary.””
The notice, which was issued by VBU’s Joint Registrar Asish Mahato, stated, “He (Amartya Sen) can lawfully occupy 1.25 acres of land only, as lessee (for the residual period of lease) in the scheduled premises. He does not have the authority to occupy 1.38 acres of land in the scheduled premises. Therefore, this occupation of additional 13 decimals of land by him in the concerned public premises is definitely a case of “unauthorised occupation”.”
In its notice, the varsity said Sen could have participated in joint survey / hearing and indicated his choice. “In the absence of such choice, on study of survey reports prepared by the estate office in 2006 and considering the fact that Sen’s access to his ancestral house should not be disturbed, it is decided that 13 decimals of land having the dimension of 50 ft. × 111 ft. in the north-west corner of the scheduled premises is to be recovered from him,” it added.
The Visva Bharati had earlier put up a notice on the boundary walls next to the entrance of Pratichi, the ancestral home of Nobel laureate Amartya Sen in Santiniketan, providing the economist with an ultimatum to appear before the varsity authorities at noon on 19 April for the disposal of proceedings on the disputed 13 decimal plot which the institution has accused Professor Sen of being an “alleged unauthorised occupant”.
After the notice was put up on the property, Sen had sent an email to the Visva-Bharati authorities on April 17 to underline his right to the land occupied by ‘Pratichi’ – his family’s ancestral home, which was in the name of his late father Ashutosh Sen.
The Nobel laureate asserted that any ‘contrary claim’ to the plot couldn’t stand till the expiry of the leasehold rights.
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