A notice for a notice

Devotees at a Hanuman temple in the Chhoti Bazaria area of Madhya Pradesh's Bhind district were taken aback recently when they found a notice pasted on the temple door. The notice urged the deity to clear the place in a week as the structure had encroached on public space. The notice, addressed to Lord Hanuman and not the temple priest or the trust, was among a total of 218 notices served to clear the area of encroachments. When devotees protested, the chief municipality officer of Bhind blamed the anti-encroachment drive incharge for the goof-up and served him a notice to look into the matter.