Summary:
Upholding the order of the additional district judge, Justice Subramanium directed the petitioner to approach the appropriate civil court. Their encroachment amounts to infringement of citizens’ rights, the Madras High Court said. Therefore, the land is to be reclassified as patta land, enabling the petitioner to get patta, ” the judge said. “It is an ancestral property and the petitioner claims that the entries in the revenue registers were made erroneously. more-inIt is the duty of the local bodies to maintain government lands and properties, as these for public welfare schemes..