Nepal gurdwaras to be under NRI trust
Tuesday, 03/09/2013
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After fighting a long legal battle, Dubai-based Punjabi entrepreneur SP Singh Oberoi’s charitable trust may get the management of three gurdwaras in Nepal by the end of September.
These shrines are associated with first Sikh master Guru Nanak Dev and Oberoi plans scientific preservation of the shrines while maintain maryada (Sikh code of religious conduct).
Better known as a person who had helped save lives of 17 Indian youth sentenced to death in Dubai, Oberoi on Monday said he had managed to access the original revenue documents that helped him to stake the gurdwaras’ claim on land.
He is elated that the Nepalese apex court accepted the 500-yearold royal donation papers and the Nepal government has agreed in principle to allow the restoration work of the shrine to the trust, a registered body in Nepal, and other local people.
The land of Guru Nanak Math is still in the name of Guru Nanak Dev. “The supreme court of Nepal is expected to hand over the control of the land and shrines to Sarbat Da Bhala Charitable Trust in the next few days,” said Oberoi, who was in Karnal to launch a rehabilitation programme.
