With his gray beard, bare torso and rudrachya beads, the acting chief of the judiciary, who was participating in a religious function on the occasion of the Hindu festival of Ram Nawami at a temple in his home village of Inawarsira, appeared no less an ascetic than a typical Hindu mendicant. [break]
According to local resident Rasul Ansari, Sharma spent the whole day in worship at Bandevi temple, which he had himself built on ancestral land at a cost of over Rs 2.5 million.
Sharma, who reached the village on Thursday, also organized a fair where locals received free meals and reveled in celebrations and recreational activities, according to Thakur Dhami, another local.
Locals also informed that Sharma, who is known among the villagers for his saintly ways, used to involve himself in religious and humanitarian work when he was a judge at the district court.
According to them, Sharma has settled landless people on his ancestral land in the village.
Sharma informed that he was there for the religious ceremony.
The fair was also participated by district level leaders of various political parties.
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