The Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board showed families of Sathya Nagar and Sanjay Nagar in Vyasarpadi a petition signed by a dead person in a bid to evict the 500 odd families that live there, claim residents.

The TNSCB has proposed to build a complex of 972 tenements in the as a part of Moorthy Nagar Phase 2 project. The first phase of the project has about 950 families.

“The Slum Clearance Board showed us a petition that was allegedly signed by people from our own locality, requesting to be moved to better houses since we were living under pathetic conditions here. When I read the petition, I was shocked to find the first name on the petition, among several others, were of people who were dead,” said Sajeesh K, a resident.

The board officials asked residents to pack up their belongings since their houses would be brought down for the Moorthinagar phase 2 project, said residents.

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