evidence: A post is being widely shared on social media, claiming that Nobel laureate Amartya Sen was involved in gross irregularities and land grabbing during his tenure at Visva-Bharati University in West Bengal. Let’s verify the claim made in the post. [...] According to media reports, the land dispute between Amartya Sen and Visva-Bharati University centres around a plot of land on the university campus in Santiniketan. In December 2020, the university included Sen in a list of illegal occupants on its campus. The university alleges that Sen possesses 1.38 acres of land, which exceeds his legal entitlement of 1.25 acres. They claim that only 1.25 acres of land were leased to Sen’s father, Ashutosh Sen, a professor at Visva-Bharati University in 1940. In response to the university’s January 2023 letters demanding the return of excess land, Sen stated that his father had purchased the freehold land from the market, not from Visva-Bharati, and they have been paying taxes for it. He argued that the university’s allegations were an attempt at harassment. [...] Following this, the university had recently ordered Sen to vacate the 13 decimals of land allegedly occupied by him in Santiniketan by 06 May 2023. Amartya Sen approached a court against this eviction order. The case has now been filed on behalf of the Nobel laureate in West Bengal’s Suri district court, with a hearing scheduled for 15 May 2023. Over 120 left-leaning intellectuals and prominent figures have written an open letter, urging Visva-Bharati University not to "harass" Nobel laureate Amartya Sen over the land issue.