Bungalow of Arundhati Roy's husband illegal: Court
HOSHANGABAD: A local court here has upheld Revenue Court's decision declaring 'illegal' a bungalow built by Pradeep Kishan, filmmaker and husband of activist Arundhati Roy, in a village in Pachmarhi hill station.
Sub-Divisional Magistrate V Kirangopal dismissed the appeal of Kishan and three others, who also have their houses in the same area, yesterday, Kishan's counsel Sushil Goyal said today.
In their appeal, Kishan, Aradhana Seth, Jagdish Chand and N Yadav said they had built their dwellings lawfully in revenue area and not in forest area.
Kishan and others filed the appeal in the SDM Court on a direction from the Madhya Pradesh High Court in February. They had filed a writ petition in the HC seeking setting aside of the Revenue Court's order of 2003 quashing their ownership right on the land.
The four had bought land in Bariam village in 1993 and got their houses built in 1995 after seeking all mandatory sanctions, Goyal claimed.
However in 2003, sub-district revenue officer on a report of a junior revenue official, cancelled their land rights, stating the houses had been built on forest land area, where sale or purchase of property is banned, he said.
"We are going to file an appeal with the Hoshangabad Divisional Commissioner's office against the dismissal of our appeal," Goyal said.
she and her family are such a disgust
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