Lawyer wants govt to set up task force to tackle land registry fraud

The lawyer in a suit against the government over a 50-year-old land acquisition case is urging the government to set up a permanent task force that can identify gaps in the system to prevent fraudulent practices in land registries.

R Kengadharan whose litigant was strong in the view that there were glaring irregularities in the acquisition of a portion of her land, said: “Corruption and abuse of power was a very complex thing.”

He said more was needed to be done to...