[Reader-list] Arundhati’s Pachmarhi house declared illegal

[Samvit]

A crook who wanted to be a saint!!!!
Thanks for sharing this, Aditya.

On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Aditya Raj Kaul <kauladityaraj at gmail.com> wrote:
> Arundhati’s Pachmarhi house declared illegal***Milind
> Ghatwai<http://www.indianexpress.com/columnist/milindghatwai/>
> **
> Indian Express
>
> Link -
> http://www.indianexpress.com/news/Arundhati-s-Pachmarhi-house-declared-illegal/718384
> *
>
> Writer-activist Arundhati Roy on Tuesday lost a crucial battle to save her
> bungalow in Pachmarhi, the picturesque hill station in Madhya Pradesh.
>
> A sub-divisional magistrate held that the plot on which the bungalow was
> built in the 1990s is a notified forest area, where sale or purchase of
> property is banned.
>
> SDM (Piparia) B Kirangopal told The Indian Express that Section 18 of the
> Forest Act allows only hereditary passage of ownership.
>
> The writer’s filmmaker husband Pradeep Kishan had purchased the plot in
> Bariam in the early 1990s, from a villager. The couple visits the bungalow
> once in a while.
>
> Aradhana Seth, sister of author Vikram Seth, was among three other owners
> who were also given notices by the deputy tehsildar, saying the properties
> were illegal.
>
> The four had challenged the order in the Madhya Pradesh High Court, saying
> that the bungalows stood on revenue land and not forest land. The high court
> recently asked the petitioners to go through a proper channel, which meant
> they had to file an appeal before the SDM (Piparia).
>
> --
> Aditya Raj Kaul
>
> India Editor
> The Indian, Australia <http://www.theindian.net.au/>
>
> Blog: http://activistsdiary.blogspot.com/
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