Key Highlights
- The case has assumed added significance as the Cheruvally estate has been identified as the proposed site for the Sabarimala International Greenfield Airport.
- The ruling, meanwhile, is also expected to set a precedent for the remaining cases and influence the State’s broader efforts to reclaim plantation lands.
- The State government moved the Sub Court in 2019, seeking to reclaim the 2,263-acre estate spread across Erumely South and Manimala villages.
- The government argues that the land is State property that was illegally sold by Harrisons Malayalam Limited (HML) to Ayana Charitable Trust, then known as Gospel for Asia, in 2005.
- In 2015, M. G.
