A villager, Vasant Bhat, moved a resolution seeking to ban the Sanstha, and it was adopted unanimously after discussion.
Bandora village panchayat, which granted permission for Sanatan Sanstha to set up its base in its jurisdiction, has now sought to ban the institution bowing to public pressure.
The village panchayat, which covers Ramnathi, where the Sanstha's ashram is located, has already moved a resolution seeking the ban on them as an offshoot of the Margao bomb blast.
The activities of this decade-old organisation moved to this village in 2003 when the ashram took shape here near Shree Ramnath Devasthan.
All was well till October 16, when a blast rocked the commercial capital of Goa, Margao.
Two Sanatan activists were killed in the explosion and subsequent investigation exposed an entire network linking Sanstha's seekers to the conspiracy of the serial bomb blast.
The eerie of silence filled with tension got vocal during the gram sabha on Sunday when villagers vehemently spoke against the Sanstha.
A villager, Vasant Bhat, moved a resolution seeking to ban the Sanstha, and it was adopted unanimously after discussion.
"The resolution demanda ban on the institution, and also seeks to investigate the affairs of ashram," Divakar Salelkar, Bandora panchayat secretary, told PTI.
Local sarpanch Prabhakar Gawde, who could not resist the locals from moving the resolution, said that they have forwarded it to governor Dr S Sidhu, chief minister Digamber Kamat and local MLA Sudin Dhavalikar.
On the backdrop of locals raising a red flag against the ashram, the management filed a petition with Ponda police station alleging that a mob of ten people on Sunday tried to enter their premises from the wired fencing at the rear end.
"They assaulted a labourer working there and pelted stones on Ashram," Virendra Marathe, managing trustee, Sanatan Sanstha, has said in the police complaint.
Police inspector CL Patil, confirming the complaint petition by the Sanstha said that they will take action only after verifying facts.
Goa police have refrained from providing any protection to the ashram premises.
"If there is any merit in the case filed by the Sanstha, then police will surely give them the required protection," superintendent of police and spokesperson for the Goa police department Atmaram Deshpande told reporters here.
He said that the panchayat resolution will go to the directorate of panchayat, and police cannot take the cognisance till it reaches the department through proper channel.
Sanatan has been increasingly finding itself in a tight spot after the Special Investigation Team (SIT) has put its activities under the scanner.
"Sanatan Sanstha is under the scanner and SIT is probing all its aspects," Deshpande said.
The ashram has around 200-odd inmates from across the country, and mostly from the states of Maharashtra and Karnataka.
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