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Three-day notice for encroachers

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To retrieve movable properties and vacate encroached premises To retrieve properties and vacate premises

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Kerala Cabinet on Wednesday decided to give three days' notice to encroachers in various districts before the authorities demolish illegal structures.

Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan told mediapersons after a Cabinet meeting that this was to allow time to the encroachers to retrieve movable properties and vacate the premises.

Strict instructions had been issued to Collectors of all districts to grant reasonable time to encroachers before evictions.

Referring to action against encroachers from Thiruvananthapuram to Kasaragod and some organisations resorting to direct action for eviction of some alleged encroachers, the Chief Minister said the public would not be allowed to take the law into their hands.

Mr. Achuthanandan said the police would conduct detailed inquiries against police, revenue, registration and forest officials and encroachers who collaborated in encroaching upon government land. Many officials had amassed wealth. Some of them had already been transferred.

He said those who alleged the existence of a `media syndicate' in the capital was now relying on the media syndicate to leak out discussions in Left Democratic Front (LDF) State committee meetings.

This was how the controversy over the discussions in the LDF about the team deputed by the Government to Munnar for evictions and demolitions arose.

Televisions channels had flashed news about the discussions even while the LDF State committee was in session. This would not have been possible without some leader of an LDF constituent leaking information to the media. "Those who blamed the media syndicate are now relying upon the very syndicate."

He said the decision to depute the team was the unanimous decision of the LDF Cabinet. He had announced it as such and none had reported that it was his personal decision.

Free ration

He said free ration would be provided to 179 families whose members were under treatment for chikungunya in Pathanamthitta district.

Compensation of up to Rs.25,000 each would be provided to 179 victims of massacre and violence at Marad in Kozhikode district. These were people who had not earlier accepted the compensation for losses suffered by them on the ground that the sum offered was inadequate.

Up to Rs.10,000 each would be provided to 19 families who suffered damage in a fire at Vadi near Kollam.

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