Land Grabbing In Tamil Nadu

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  Legislation Against Land Grabbing "Need Of The Hour": Madras High Court

  The Madras High Court on Monday expressed concern over grabbing of government lands and said a legislation against it was the need of the hour.

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  Former Owner Of Kodanand Estate Accuses VK Sasikala of Land Grabbing

  Twenty three years after selling his 900-acre property in Kodanad tea estate, a man has alleged that had been forced to do so by VK Sasikala and that he would file a complaint with the police against her. Peter Craig Jones told NDTV that his father had developed the Kodanand tea estate near Ooty. But Ms Sasikala and her friends had got hold of it i...

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  Tamil Nadu Polls: Jayalalithaa Attacks DMK On Law And Order During Its Rule

  AIADMK supremo and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa today slammed the DMK on law and order situation during its previous rule alleging the regime was marred by interference in police functioning, land grab and other similar issues.

• Alagiri Granted Anticipatory Bail in Land Grab Case

  Madras High Court bench today granted anticipatory bail till September 3 to former Union Minister and expelled DMK leader, M K Alagiri in a land grab case.

• Former DMK Leader MK Alagiri Booked in Land Grab Case

  The Madurai police have filed a First Information Report or FIR against DMK chief M Karunanidhi's son, MK Alagiri on charges of land grabbing.

• DMK MP Ritheesh arrested for cheating and forgery

  DMK's Member of Parliament JK Ritheesh was arrested today in connection with a Rs 20 crore land grabbing case.

• Former DMK ministers Veerapandi Arumugam and Periyasamy arrested in Tamil Nadu

  Two former DMK ministers Veerapandi S Arumugam and I Periyasamy were arrested on Monday on different charges. Mr Arumugam, the DMK's strongman in Salem district, was arrested near his residence on land grabbing charges and Mr Periyasamy at Koombur in Dindigul district for alleged illegal granite mining, police said.

• High Court directs removal of encroachments in Tiruvannamalai Hill

  Wondering how encroachments were allowed in Thiruvannamalai Hill, home to a famous Lord Shiva temple, Madras High Court today directed the government to remove all such unauthorised constructions. Passing orders on a petition by CM Sivababu, District President of the Hindu Makkal Katchi, a bench comprising Chief Justice MY Eqbal and Justice TS Siv...

• Jayalalithaa's ex-aide Sasikala's husband Natarajan remanded to judicial custody till March 2

  A local court today remanded M Natarajan, husband of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa's estranged aide Sasikala to judicial custody till March 2. He was arrested in Chennai by Thanjavur police on Saturday in a land grabbing case.

• Will continue to act against land grabbers says Tamil Nadu government

  Ruling All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam in Tamil Nadu today reasserted its commitment to continue action against land grabbing complaints in which many Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam men, including former ministers have been arrested.

• Former DMK minister arrested on land-grabbing charges

  Another former DMK Minister, Vellakovil Swaminathan, has been arrested in Tamil Nadu this morning. Mr Swaminathan, who was the Highways Minister till last April in the government of M Karunanidhi, has been accused of land grabbing, criminal intimidation and holding kangaroo courts.

• Man appears before Central Crime Branch in Stalin case

  Rajashankar, an accused in an alleged land grab case against DMK MLA M K Stalin, appeared before the Central Crime Branch on Thursday.

• Stalin's son granted anticipatory bail in land grabbing case

  Udayanidhi Stalin, son of DMK leader M K Stalin, who apprehended arrest in a land grabbing case, was on Wednesday granted anticipatory bail by the Madras High Court.

• You are a flag of war, say DMK posters for Kanimozhi

  Inee Nee Poongodiyalla! Porkodi! (Henceforth, you are not a flowering plant, but flag of war), read one of the hundreds of hoardings put up to greet DMK Rajya Sabha MP Kanimozhi, who had a date with the city after a 6-month stay in Tihar Jail. DMK cadre, who were lying low after the assembly poll loss, the 2G case controversy and spate of land grab...

• Government threatens to sue DMK's Stalin

  Slamming DMK leader M K Stalin for indulging in "mudslinging" by levelling land grabbing charges against Chief Minister Jayalalithaa, the AIADMK government on Sunday termed his action as an attempt to divert attention from criminal charges facing him and threatened to initiate defamation proceedings.