The Kerala High Court on Tuesday (June 16) ordered that the stay on eviction in the Malayidamthuruth land dispute will remain in force till the families shift to the land assigned to them. The eviction was earlier ordered by the Munsiff Court, Perumbavoor.It was submitted that the parties had reached a settlement, and that the seven families would be given 35 cents’ worth of land altogether.A Bench of Justice T.R. Ravi further directed that the settlement pact should be placed on record, complete with the signatures of all seven families, by June 29.The newly formed United Democratic Front (UDF) government had joined the legal dispute at the end of May and was given time by the court to resolve the long-standing dispute.Previously, the High Court had restricted orders relating to the eviction by the Perumbavoor court till the matter was heard on Tuesday.The settlement pact comes after decades of dispute over the land at Pariyathukavu, near Kizhakambalam, where Dalit families are said to have been residing for at least three generations. The eviction process was initiated after multiple court orders affirmed a private individual’s claim over the land. Published - June 16, 2026 03:14 pm IST