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Kerala mulls Andhra model act to recover 5lakh acres from land sharks

  • MG Rajamanickam had recommended a special legislation to recover land illegally in possession of private companies and individuals.
  • The Andhra Pradesh legislation of 1982 has provisions to form a special court and special tribunals for the speedy inquiry into land grabbing cases. 
Kerala mulls legislation to recover alienated public land

 


Kerala Revenue Department is planning to formulate an act modelled on the Andhra Pradesh Land Grabbing (Prohibition) Act - 1982 to take back more than five lakh acres of public land illegally occupied by land sharks. Sources in the Department told Asianet News that the act will have strict provisions including penalisation of Revenue officials who act hand in glove with land mafia.  

 

As per a report by MG Rajamanickam, Special Officer who was entrusted with recapturing plantation land in possession of Harrisons Malayalam Ltd, had recommended a special legislation to recover land illegally in possession of private companies and individuals. More than five lakh acres of public land is in the illegal custody of nearly 200 big land sharks, the report said. 

 

The Revenue Department is moving ahead with the plan to introduce an act modeled on the anti-land grabbing act of Andhra Pradesh, as attempts to recover public land from grabbers ended up in legal tangles. 


The department had proposed the formation of a special police force to check land grab cases in the state. But the Chief Minister is yet to take a  call on it. 

 

The Andhra Pradesh legislation of 1982 has provisions including the formation of a special court and special tribunals for the speedy inquiry and trial of land grabbing cases. 

 

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