The Hindu 20.09.2009
Corporation retrieves land
Staff Reporter
— Photo: A. Shaikmohideen
SWIFT ACTION: A compound wall constructed by a property developer being removed at Palayamkottai on Saturday.
TIRUNELVELI: Corporation officials demolished the compound wall of an apartment at Palayamkottai on Saturday to retrieve a land measuring about three cents (1,290 square feet) belonging to the urban body encroached upon by a private builder.
After a private builder encroached upon the corporation land adjacent to his apartment next to Old Bishop’s House on the South High Ground Road, a team of officials from the Corporation descended on the premises on Saturday morning. As the survey conducted by the corporation officials revealed that the builder had encroached upon the land costing about several lakhs of rupees, they decided to remove it. Demolishing the compound wall with the heavy equipment to retrieve the land, the corporation officials also dug up the hitherto illegally occupied land to find whether any tank had been constructed under ground.
Based on the complaint given by Palayamkottai zone Assistant Commissioner (in-Charge) T. Shanthi, the Palayamkottai police have registered case against owner of the property Antony Raj, also from Palayamkottai.