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Pronouncing its order, the tribunal upheld arsenic valid the merchantability of the 2,263-acre property by Harrisons Malayalam Limited (HML) to Ayana Charitable Trust successful 2005.
The lawsuit progressive an ownership quality betwixt the State authorities and Ayana Charitable Trust, nether the K.P. Yohannan-led Believers’ Church. In 2019, the State authorities had approached the Sub Court seeking to reclaim the property, which spans Erumely South and Manimala villages, arguing that the onshore was government-owned and had been illegally transferred.
During the hearing, the State maintained that the onshore fell nether the Pandaravaka Pattom category, indicating that it had lone been leased to HML.
The defendants, however, argued that they had acquired ownership done adverse possession, citing continuous possession of the onshore by their predecessors for implicit a century. They besides produced entries from the Basic Tax Register and taxation receipts to substantiate their claim.
In 2015, M.G. Rajamanickam, a peculiar serviceman appointed nether the Kerala Land Conservancy Act to scrutinise semipermanent plantation leases, had declared the transportation amerciable and ordered the “resumption” of the land. That bid was aboriginal struck down by the High Court pursuing a situation by HML, compelling the State to prosecute the substance done civilian courts, arsenic directed by some the High Court and the Supreme Court.
The judgement is besides expected to person far-reaching implications for a spectrum of ownership disputes involving plantation estates crossed Kerala.
