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The Krishnagiri District Revenue Officer volition perceive and adjudicate Thoti Inam onshore claims connected Thursday (June 11, 2026). The proceeding is an result of a Writ petition filed by the ineligible heirs of Thoti Inam lands astatine Avathuvadi colony successful Mottur panchayat here. There volition besides beryllium hearings connected claims of Thotti Inam onshore from Nallur panchayat and Lakshmipuram panchayat successful Hosur and Krishnagiri, respecitviely.
Thotti Inam lands are granted by the assemblage authorities for Adi Dravidars for the caste-determined services rendered successful the village. Armed with the archetypal papers dating 1910, granted by the Governor successful the Council of Madras, the ineligible heirs of the grantees are approaching the Revenue authorities seeking restoration of their onshore title.
The inalienable quality of those onshore grants not withstanding, hundreds of acres of specified lands are recovered encroached upon and the rubric claims by the rightful ineligible heirs are being denied by the gross administration, alleged S. Karuppiah, State president of the Madurai-based Dalit Liberation Movement. Based connected his representation, the National Commission for Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes directed the territory medication to enactment connected the plea for the restoration of specified lands.
“Close to 1,000 acres of the lands, that are not panchami lands, are nether encroachments by plan with the connivance of the gross officials,” alleged Mr. Karuppiah.
In 2005, a circular was issued by Kannaki Pacianathan, the past manager of National Commission for Scheduled Castes, directing Jamabandi officials to marque tract visits to place specified encroachments connected Thoti Inam lands, and instrumentality enactment to reconstruct them to the ineligible heirs. However, the circular has been ignored by each territory Collectors, said Mr. Karuppiah.
The question besides questioned the earlier dismissal of claims connected the grounds that specified Inams were abolished nether the Tamil Nadu Minor Inams Act, transferring the rights backmost to the government. “However, that does not use to Thoti Inam lands, arsenic determination is simply a proviso to reconstruct the lands backmost to the Adi Dravidars by the government,” added Mr. Karuppiah.
According to the organisation, astir of the Thoti inam lands that were encroached and the records mutated during the UDR (Updating Registry), a strategy to update gross records based connected elemental claims of ownership by encroachers.
