Malayidamthuruth row: govt. urges claimant to give away portion of disputed land to Dalit residents

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The Kerala authorities has projected an out-of-the-court colony to resoluteness the impasse implicit the Pariyathukavu onshore quality successful which 7 Dalit families look eviction. As portion of the projected settlement, the authorities has requested the household of the precocious Kannatt Sankaran Nair, who has won favourable tribunal verdicts implicit his ownership assertion implicit the onshore wherever the families reside, to see giving distant 5 cents of onshore each to the families wrong the disputed 2.69-acre spot astatine Pariyathukavu, Malayidamthuruth adjacent Kizhakkambalam.

Higher Education Minister Roji M. John said the authorities was hoping to resoluteness the substance earlier June 16, the latest deadline fixed by the Kerala High Court to settee the issue.

"Once the heirs of Nair hold to the proposal, the authorities volition supply the families with houses and each required facilities including road," Mr. John, who has been deputed by the authorities to pb the deliberations implicit the matter, said present connected Friday (June 5, 2025). The Minister was speaking to media aft holding a treatment with the stakeholders astatine the collectorate. The talks involving representatives of the affected families and the Pariyathukavu enactment council, Nair's kin, Kunnathunad MLA V.P. Sajeendranand territory officials lasted for astir 3 hours.

"We anticipation we tin settee the substance retired of court. Multiple options were projected astatine the gathering and some the parties person expressed their concerns and demands. Once the government's connection is approved by some the parties, we volition pass the tribunal and we anticipation the tribunal volition o.k. it," the Minister said.

The Minister said during the deliberations, the affected families demanded that they beryllium allowed to enactment successful the aforesaid onshore they inhabit present portion Nair's heir projected to supply them with an alternate spot determination other wrong Vazhakulam village. The authorities proposes its proposition arsenic some the parties did not hold with each other's proposals.

The Minister said some the parties person been told to sermon the connection among themselves and travel to a conclusion. Another circular of treatment is apt to beryllium held connected Monday astatine the collectorate.

CPI(M) person and erstwhile Kunnathunad MLA P.V. Sreenijin said the enactment assembly welcomed the latest treatment calling it a determination successful the affirmative direction. "The enactment council's request has ever been that the families should not beryllium evicted. Now, the authorities has besides made a connection successful that direction. We anticipation a affirmative result volition emerge. After all, we person to see the sentiments s of the affected families," helium said.

Published - June 05, 2026 06:38 p.m. IST

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