Puttur AC Court Cancels 50-Year-Old Land Grant to Heggade's Brother

Harshendra got land claiming that he did not own any property and had annual income of ₹1,200

- VINCENT D'SOUZA @Mangaluru

PUTTUR Assistant Commissioner's Court has issued an order cancelling a grant of 7.59 acres of agricultural land in Dharmasthala village of Dakshina Kannada district to D Harshendra Kumar, brother of Rajya Sabha MP and Dharmasthala Dharmadhikari D Veerendra Heggade.

The land was granted to Harshendra in 1972 under the Mysore Land Grant Rules, 1969. In his affidavit filed then, Harshendra, who identified himself as 'landless', with an annual income of ₹1,200, had claimed that he had no property of his own, either inherited or self-acquired, which made him eligible for land under the government's provisions for the landless.