Mangalore, Oct 9: Claiming that a building lobby was trying to evacuate a family of Dalits from a plot of land in Kadri in the city, Karnataka Dalit Sangharsha Samiti (KSSS) urged the district administration to conduct a survey to ensure that nobody would attempt to encroach the land where they resided.
Speaking at a press meet here on Tuesday, Dakshina Kannada district convenor of the Samiti Keshav Puttur said that the families of late Dogra and Bhagi had been residing on a plot of 1.37 acre land in Kadri from the past hundred years or so. Although the land belonged to a M K Babu, the families of Dogra and Bhagi had submitted an application to the government for the possession of the land, as per the Land Reforms Act, he said.
However, the land owner sold the land (which comes under survey no. 58-3A3A in Mangalore City Corporation limits) to a real-estate and construction company without informing the Dalit families, claiming that there was no legal proof or documents supporting that the land belonged to them. The real-estate company Marian Projects, having bought the land, is now trying to move down the trees and the'daiva gudi' on the land which is worshipped by the families, he claimed.
The Dalits leaders said that there was a lobby trying to evacuate the present resident Umanath Kotian, a Dalit, from the land. They urged the district administration to conduct a survey and transfer the possession of the 0.41 acres of land in the name of Umanath Kotian, so that nobody would attempt to evacuate them.
Dalit leaders S P Anand, Ashok Konchady, A Chadndrakumar and others were present.
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