Cutting of trees from non forest areas - precedure for legal sanction hand book uploaded by James Joseph Adhikarathil Kottayam The trees were felled from revenue lands assigned to farmers under the Kerala Land Assignment Act. A 2020 October order of the Kerala revenue department allowed axing of protected trees like rosewood and teak grown by farmers in the assigned lands. A... Read more at: https://www.deccanherald.com/national/south/tree-felling-row-in-kerala-snowballing-into-a-major-scandal-995221