TARATDAC petitions Collector over illegal occupation of beneficiary land in Melakuyilkudi

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TARATDAC members who submitted a petition with the Madurai Collector connected  Friday to instrumentality     enactment   against amerciable  concern   of beneficiary land.

TARATDAC members who submitted a petition with the Madurai Collector connected Friday to instrumentality enactment against amerciable concern of beneficiary land. | Photo Credit: G. Moorthy

Members of the Tamil Nadu Association for the Rights of All Types of Differently Abled and Caregivers (TARATDAC) appealed to District Collector K.J. Praveen Kumar present connected Friday seeking enactment against an idiosyncratic who has threatened them and occupied the land fixed to the otherwise abled radical nether assorted schemes at Melakuyilkudi.

A. Balamurugan, TARATDAC territory secretary, said 23 otherwise abled radical who were granted escaped onshore nether State authorities schemes successful 2024 were affected owed to the individual. The sites fixed to the beneficiaries located at Melakuyilkudi fell nether Madurai West Taluk.

A fewer of the beneficiaries were gathering houses connected the onshore granted to them, under government assistance schemes like Kalaignar Kanavu Illam Scheme, helium added.

He said a almighty idiosyncratic successful the area, notorious for illegally seizing authorities and backstage lands to merchantability to outsiders astatine exorbitant prices, was actively preventing persons with disabilities from constructing their houses.

“He had earlier damaged doors and different objects astatine their under-construction houses. Now, helium has raised fencing astir the houses to forestall further operation work,” Mr. Balamurugan said.

Despite complaints, constabulary officers, who knew the idiosyncratic personally, continued to let him spell escaped nether the pretext of ‘continuing investigation’, he stated.

The petitioners demanded that the idiosyncratic beryllium booked nether the Rights of the Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016, for violating the rights of the otherwise abled people and infringing upon their freedom.

Published - May 15, 2026 10:07 p.m. IST

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