Property developer Ehsan Bina has filed a new case against the residents of a village at Padang Jawa in Klang, alleging that they are illegally occupying the company’s land.
This is after the firm failed to get a court order to evict the villagers, as its petition for leave was denied by the Federal Court on 7 March 2017.
In a new case filed in May, Ehsan Bina’s Director Koi Chor Koon insists that the company legally purchased the land currently occupied by the village in 2012. It also identified 20 villagers as defendants in its latest suit, along with other unnamed individuals.
However, High Court Judicial Commissioner Roslan A Bakar instructed the developer to specify all of the defendants. As such, he has set another case management on 9 October so the company can get the names these persons as well as the supporting documents proving that it has obtained the consent of five villagers.
However, 15 of the 20 defendants are challenging the consent.
“The court should not allow for a consent if there was no clarity on the names and the consent was also disputed,” said Dinesh Muttal, an attorney resenting the 15 villagers.
According to the villagers’ representative Azman Mohd Taib, they have lived in the disputed land for more than four decades.
“The developer had previously coerced some villagers to sign an agreement that they will move out and they would only get RM7,000 as compensation. I did not sign the so-called agreement as I am not afraid and do not agree to the terms.”
Previously, Azman and the villagers filed a report with the cops, claiming that Ehsan Bina personnel were harassing them to force them to move out of their homes.
Image sourced from FMT.
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