The State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) came down on the District Police Chief (Kozhikode Rural) for not submitting a report it had sought in August on the alleged cheating of a tribesperson by quarry owners who gave him an uninhabitable land in place of the property they had procured from him.
The officer was told to submit the report within a week as the case was to be heard at the next district-level sitting of the Commission on October 28.
The complainant, Chelakkara Koran from Paikkadan Mala in Karasseri panchayat, had alleged that 2.16 acres were snatched from him by the owners of a quarry named Palakkal Granites, and that the land given to him in replacement was a partial forest land without the required ownership documents.
