A farmer lodged a complaint of land-grabbing against former Union Minister M.K. Alagiri with Collector L. Subramanian here on Friday.
In his petition, M. Ramalingam of the Madurai District Farmer’s Welfare Association claimed that Mr. Alagiri had registered in his name 44 cents of wetland belonging to a Vinayagar Temple adjacent to Dhaya College of Engineering at Sivarakottai.
The temple comes under the Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments, he added.
The land was registered in the name of Mr. Alagiri as the founder of M.K. Alagiri Educational Trust that has promoted the engineering college. “This has taken place in January 2011, when Mr. Alagiri was a Union Minister,” Mr. Ramalingam said.
“I have submitted proof obtained from the Department of Registration that the land has been wrongfully registered in Mr. Alagiri’s name using fake documents,” Mr. Ramalingam alleged. “The land was once a wetland, which was used for farming and it now lies barren,” he said.
Mr. Subramanian received the petition and said that he would look into the issue.
Mr. Ramalingam had filed a public interest litigation petition in 2011 at the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court against M.K. Alagiri Educational Trust. He had accused the Trust of having destroyed irrigation channels while constructing Dhaya College of Engineering.
