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The Kerala High Court has issued announcement to Kerala authorities connected a nationalist involvement litigation (PIL) challenging the alleged duty of 15 cents of onshore belonging to Kerala University to the Communist Party of India (Marxist)’s erstwhile State headquarters, AKG Centre (AKG Memorial Research Centre), successful Thiruvananthapuram.
A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Soumen Sen and Justice Shyam Kumar V.M. connected Thursday (January 22, 2026) directed the authorities to record an affidavit successful the substance wrong 3 weeks.
The PIL was filed by R.S. Sasikumar, a societal idiosyncratic and erstwhile Joint Registrar of Kerala University. He alleged that the Government Order (GO) purportedly effecting the onshore duty was untraceable successful authoritative records, including those of the Departments of Archaeology and Revenue, arsenic good arsenic different statutory authorities.
According to the petitioner, the AKG Memorial Research Centre is not a recognised probe instauration of the university. Even assuming that the onshore had been assigned, it had been grossly misused arsenic an bureau and governmental hub of a governmental party, contrary to the stated intent of the duty and successful usurpation of statutory mandates. He described the alleged transaction arsenic thing abbreviated of onshore grabbing facilitated by the governmental party’s musculus power.
Despite repeated representations and applications nether the Right to Information (RTI) Act, the competent authorities person failed to nutrient the impugned Government Order. Nor had immoderate steps been taken to initiate eviction proceedings oregon repossess the land. The petitioner submitted that the alleged duty was illegal, unconstitutional, and void, arsenic it violated the provisions of the Kerala University Act and the principles governing the absorption of nationalist property.
