IIT Guwahati in its RTI response also claimed that the temple has been on the campus even before the institute came up and has been there since 'time immemorial'.
The Tamil Nadu Government's long-drawn effort to acquire the temple lands to allegedly hand it over to the squatters has been impeded by the Madras High Court.
The Ravidas temple was demolished on August 21 by the Delhi Development Authority following the Supreme Court's direction on long-standing land encroachment dispute.