Babita Tiku presented a gold necklace weighing 203 grams at Sai Charan
Shirdi: On the occasion of New Year, devotees make huge offerings to Saibaba on the first day of the year. It is noteworthy that lakhs of devotees in India and abroad have faith in Sai Baba. Due to this faith, devotees made huge offerings to Sai Baba on the occasion of New Year.
A devotee offered a heavy gold necklace
On January 1, 2025, Sai devotee Smt. Babita Tiku has presented a gold necklace weighing 203 grams at Sai Charan. Its total price is Rs 13 lakh 30 thousand 348. He has offered a beautifully embroidered necklace at the feet of Saibaba.
Babita Tiku is a Sai devotee and is originally from Jammu and Kashmir. Although currently she is a resident of Shirdi. His family offered this necklace at the feet of Baba on the occasion of New Year.
Statement from CEO of Saibaba Sansthan Shirdi
Goraksh Gadilkar, CEO of Saibaba Sansthan Shirdi has given information about this. He told that a gold necklace weighing 203 grams has been found in Saicharan, which is worth Rs 13 lakh 30 thousand.
The Trust receives a lot of anonymous donations, Bombay High Court had said this
Recently, good news came for the Shri Saibaba Sansthan Trust, which manages the famous temple in Shirdi, Maharashtra. The Bombay High Court had held that the Trust was eligible for tax exemption on anonymous donations. This is because it is both a religious and charitable trust. A division bench of Justices Girish Kulkarni and Somashekhar Sundaresan had dismissed an appeal filed by the Income Tax Department challenging the October 2023 decision of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal, PTI reported. It said that since the trust is both a charitable and a religious body, it is eligible for income tax exemption on its anonymous donations.
Sri Saibaba Sansthan Trust claimed in October 2024 that it has both charitable and religious responsibilities, so it cannot be said that it is purely a charitable trust. According to the Assessing Officer of the Income Tax Department, between 2015 and 2019, the Trust received a huge amount of money in the form of anonymous donations. The department had said that this amount cannot be exempted from tax.
According to the Income Tax Department, till 2019, the trust received total donations of more than Rs 400 crore, but only Rs 2.30 crore was spent for religious purposes.