Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan.
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Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala government has decided to constitute a judicial commission to look into the Waqf land row of Munambam on the suburbs of Kochi.
The decision taken at a meeting convened by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan with representatives of the Munambam stir has not gone down well with the agitators who are of the view that there was no need for any further judicial review to examine their right over the land they purchased by making payments.
The state government also asked the state Waqf board not to initiate further steps in claiming the land or evicting residents.
Law minister P Rajeev told reporters after the meeting that Justice C N Ramachandran Nair would be appointed as judicial commission to look into the ownership of the pieces of land in question. The commission's term will be three months.
He also said that the government assured that no one would be evicted from the land and efforts to establish their legal rights would be initiated.
Though the government urged the agitators to end their indefinite stir, the aggrieved people said that they cannot end the stir as no definite decision came in the meeting.
As many as 610 families at Munambam are on indefinite stir since the last 43 days against the Waqf board's claim on their land. The Waqf board is staking claim over the land citing that it was Waqf land that was donated to Farook college in Kozhikode by one Siddique Sait in 1950.