Mangaluru: Niveus Solutions Pvt. Ltd., an award-winning Google Cloud partner on Thursday inaugurated its largest office in the country here in Mangaluru.

Sprawling across 16,000 sq. ft, with a seating capacity of 210 staff, it is the largest office of the company in India. The company has around 300 employees working from various locations in India and Singapore.

Speaking after the inauguration of the new office, actor Rakshith Shetty said he was surprised to see Mangaluru and Udupi becoming base for a global cloud engineering organization such as Niveus. He said there was lot of untapped potential in the region, be it in technology, medicine, or even arts. When the talent gets access to the right infrastructure, there was no limit to what they could achieve, he said.

Niveus CEO Suyog Shetty said the organization has seen tremendous growth in business and operations in recent times, registering an over 300% growth year on year. The Mangaluru office offers opportunities to software professionals in the region where the immense pool of talent is available from the education hub. The setup is another key step to attracting and retaining the best of talents in the region, he said.

Niveus has been empowering industry leaders, including top private banks and leading asset management companies, and customers to leverage cloud technologies and harness the power of cloud services to build resilient infrastructures that scale. It recently expanded to the ASEAN region, setting up a hub in Singapore and onboarding new customers.

Niveus was funded in 2013 by Suyog Shetty, Rashmi George, Roshan Bava, and Mohsin Khan.

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New Delhi: Justice Rohinton Nariman, former Supreme Court judge, has urged that the five pages of the Supreme Court's Ayodhya judgment affirming the Places of Worship Act, 1991, be read in every District Court and High Court across India. He stated that this would prevent frivolous suits against mosques and other religious structures.

Speaking at the inaugural lecture of the Ahmadi Foundation, established in memory of former Chief Justice of India Aziz Mushabber Ahmadi, Justice Nariman described the Ayodhya verdict as a "travesty of justice to secularism." However, he identified the segment upholding the 1991 Act as a "silver lining."

"The Constitution Bench spends five pages on the Places of Worship Act and declares it to be sound in secularism, which is part of the basic structure of our Constitution. You cannot look backward; you have to look forward," Justice Nariman emphasised.

These five pages, he suggested, could serve as a critical tool to address the rising number of cases targeting mosques and shrines across the country.

Since 2019, numerous civil suits have been filed, particularly in northern India, demanding the restoration of temples allegedly destroyed in the past to build mosques. A recent example is the Sambhal Jamia Masjid case, where a civil court ordered a survey based on claims that a temple once stood on the mosque's site.

The 1991 Act prohibits the conversion of any place of worship and maintains the religious character of sites as they existed on August 15, 1947. It is currently under challenge in the Supreme Court. Justice Nariman referred to the Constitution Bench's Ayodhya judgment, which hailed the Act as "a legislative instrument designed to protect secular values."

"The law imposes a non-derogable obligation to uphold our constitutional commitment to secularism," the Supreme Court had observed in its 2019 ruling.

Justice Nariman reiterated the importance of the Act, stating, "It freezes the places of worship as they existed on August 15, 1947. To prevent further claims, the law must be implemented as outlined in the judgment."

He added, "We see hydra heads popping up all over the country with suit after suit concerning mosques and shrines. The only way to cauterise this is by applying those five pages of the Ayodhya judgment in courts nationwide."

He further remarked on the quid pro quo judicial appointments, commenting on the case of the judge who acquitted all accused in the Babri Masjid demolition criminal conspiracy case, saying, "That judge was appointed as the UP Lokayukta after retirement. That is the 'state of affairs' in the country.”

The lecture was part of the Ahmadi Foundation’s inaugural event, where a biography titled The Fearless Judge, chronicling Justice Ahmadi's life, was also released.

Justice Nariman concluded by expressing confidence that proper implementation of the Places of Worship Act would curtail unnecessary litigation and uphold secular principles enshrined in the Indian Constitution.