Madras High Court today made it clear that registration of housing plots converted from agricultural land should be strictly as per the Tamil Nadu Regularisation of Unapproved Layouts and Plot rules, 2017. It should also be in accordance with 'Tamil Nadu Change of Land Use (From Agriculture to Non-Agriculture purposes in Non-Planning Areas) Rules 2017 and Section 22A of the Registration Act, 1908, the court said. A vacation bench,comprising Chief Justice Indira Banerjee and M Sundar gave the order on a batch of petitions seeking to restrain registration of agricultural land into housing plots. Those plots registered while the interim orders were in force shall not be registered until further orders, it said. On May 4, the court was informed that as many as 9,760 unapproved plots and house sites converted from agricultural land had been registered in Tamil Nadu from September 9, 2016 till March 28 despite a blanket ban.

Source: dna May 12, 2017 18:56 UTC