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High Court orders notice of motion

CHENNAI: Justice K. Suguna of the Madras High Court on Monday ordered notice of motion on a writ petition seeking restoration of possession of a place to 31 families of Angammal Colony, Salem, and payment of compensation to them.

Tamil Nadu Minister S.Veerapandi Arumugam has been cited as one of the respondents in the petition.

In the petition, filed by counsel R.Sankarasubbu, the petitioners, D.Ganesan and 22 others, submitted that the families were residing in Angammal Colony, near the Salem new bus stand for the past 80 years. The families had been included in the electoral rolls, issued family cards and electricity connection.

In January this year, a group of more than 100 persons asked the families to vacate the place. In February, the families’ houses were pulled down.

The petitioners, who said they were forcibly evicted, prayed the court to issue a direction to the Police Commissioner to hold an enquiry into the complaints preferred in July and restore the possession of the place to the families and further direct the authorities to pay adequate compensation to the petitioners’ families.

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