Noted fashion designer Wendell Rodricks has sought the intervention of President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi to save a 100-year-old chapel in Goa from demolition.
The Goa-based designer wrote letters to Kovind and Modi earlier this week, saying he had learnt that St Anthony's Chapel at Colvale village in North Goa district would be demolished to widen National Highway No. 17 passing through the area.
"This is illegal and in violation of the Supreme Court order that a religious structure over 100 years' old cannot be demolished. The ruling was enforced after the Babri Masjid demolition," Rodricks claimed in the letter.
Several villagers also signed the letter, urging authorities concerned to realign the expansion of NH-17 and spare the chapel from being pulled down.