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Kodanad Estate: government’s undertaking to High Court

Special Correspondent

CHENNAI: The State government on Tuesday undertook before the Madras High Court that no further steps would be taken in pursuance of an order to measure and carve out land in Kodanad Estate for acquisition to form a road, till February 12.

Justice K. Suguna passed the interim order on a petition filed by the Kodanad Estate in Kothagiri taluk of the Nilgiris district.

In his petition filed by counsel A. Navaneethakrishnan and S. Venkateshan, the petitioner, the estate manager, S.Natarajan, challenged the proceedings dated January 10 this year informing the estate that there was a proposal to acquire the estate land invoking the “urgency clause” for providing a road for the residents of Annanagar and Kothagiri and in view of the proposal the Kothagiri Tahsildar proposed to measure and carve out about 0.87 hectares in five survey numbers of Kodanad village.

The estate submitted a written objection to the Tahsildar. The Tahsildar’s proceedings were not sustainable in law and were liable to be quashed.

The petitioner submitted that there was no legal provision which enabled the Tahsildar to measure to carve out land when there was only an acquisition proposal. The proceedings were malafide. The petitioner prayed the court to call for the relevant records and quash the same.

When the matter came up, the Government Pleader, Raja Kalifullah, took notice. He undertook that no further steps would be taken with reference to the land in pursuance of the impugned order till February 12.

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