The Court said that encroachers of government land are not entitled to any equity and there is no public interest to assign a property when there is admitted encroachment.
The Kerala High Court has quashed the state government's 2015 decision to assign 5.5 hectares of land at Kallodi in Wayanad at Rs 100 per acre to St. George Forane Church, which had encroached on the said land."Poor landless tribals are .
The Kerala High Court has stated that encroachers of government land are not entitled to any equity and there is no public interest to assign a property when there is an admitted encroachment. It.
The court said the government's decision was a violation of the constitutional rights of persons from tribal communities, especially when there are thousands of landless tribals in the district.
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