AC Court Faces Action For Failure to Fulfill Civil Court Ruling
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Daijiworld Media Network—Mangalore (PS/CN)
Mangalore, Mar 21: The assistant commissioner’s (AC) court faces possible legal action for ignoring the verdict of the 2nd Additional Senior Civil Court which had asked it to provide increased reimbursement to families displaced from Malavoor village during the process of land acquisition for Mangalore Airport in Bajpe in 1999.
The government had distributed compensation of Rs 1,100 for every one cent of land to the displaced people. However, eight of the displaced—Cheyyabba, Beefathima, Badruddin, Hasanabba, Abdul Khader, Sadu Shetty, Rajeeva Shetty, and Ahmed Beary—had appealed to the court demanding just compensation.
After the proceedings the civil court has ordered the AC court, which is responsible for the distribution of compensation in this issue, to increase the compensation to Rs 7,240 for one cent of land.
When the AC court failed to meet this demand, the petitioners had once again appealed to the civil court, which on Monday February 28 ordered officials to seize the AC court before Saturday March 26 if it fails to meet the stipulation. However, when the eight ‘Amins’ of the Civil Court on Monday March 21 reached the AC court to execute the order five days prior to the deadline, AC Prabhuling Kavalkatti requested them to grant a week’s time to study the issue thoroughly.
Speaking to press persons, Kavalkatti said that about Rs 40 lakh is necessary to act upon the order of the civil court, which has raised the compensation amount for one cent from Rs 1100 to Rs 7240. He said that he will write a letter to the state government briefing about the development and urging it to release the needful funds.