Overview
- Justice C. Jayachandran directed the District Collector, Tahsildar and Village Officer to accept land tax from people living on the disputed Munambam tract.
- The order came on a batch of petitions, including one by the Bhoo Samrakshana Samithy, from residents who said tax payments were refused after the Waqf Board’s claim.
- The court listed the matter for further consideration on December 17, providing temporary relief without deciding ownership.
- The 404.76-acre area was transferred in 1950 to the Farook College Managing Committee, which later sold parcels to private buyers who obtained mutations and paid tax.
- A Kerala High Court Division Bench has held the deed was a gift and not a waqf, and that ruling faces a Special Leave Petition in the Supreme Court by the Kerala Waqf Samrakshana Vedhi.