Madras High Court Quashes Eviction Notices Against Residents of Water Channel Encroachments — Directs Regularization of Possession Under Tamil Nadu Land Encroachment Act, 1905. Petitioners, long-term residents of MGR Puram, challenged notices issued by Public Works Department under Tamil Nadu Land Encroachment Act, 1905, alleging they were encroachers on a water channel; Court held that the channel had not been used for irrigation for decades and that the government had failed to establish the land as a watercourse, thus the notices were unsustainable....
The judgment pertains to two writ petitions filed by residents of MGR Puram, Chennai, challenging eviction notices issued by the Public Works Department (Water Resources Organisation) under the Tamil ...
