1. Bailiffs execute dawn raid on temple outraging Hindu community

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    Bailiffs execute dawn raid on temple outraging Hindu community

    Bailiffs executed a dawn raid on a Hindu temple, evicting priests and seizing its sacred contents in a move which has outraged the Hindu community.

    Backed up by the police, they moved in on the Sivayogam temple in Hebdon Road, Tooting, at 5am last Tuesday, May 22, following a protracted legal dispute with owner Barrowfen Properties Ltd which has plans to turn it into a Travelodge.

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    1. It is the way they would have treated criminals.
    2. I roundly condemn the sacrilegious conduct of the enforcement officers and police in gaining forceful and blasphemous entry into the temple.
    3. This, notwithstanding high handed enforcement officers who are beef eaters have violated the sanctity of the temple by trampling the area of the shrines with their booted feet.
    4. Our planning has been to ensure there was sensitivity.
      By David Chinchen
    5. The eviction of Sivayogam Temple is very distressing for the local community, and for the Hindu community across South London
      By Sadiq Khan
    6. A temple is a community centre. Obviously demolition of it will be distressing to community life.

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