Thursday March 10, 2011 THE STAR METRO

Check your land titles, owners urged

RESIDENTS of Taman Kepong in Kuala Lumpur are urged to check their temporary land titles to see if they were given photocopies.

Taman Kepong Action Group chairman M.U. Arumugam asked residents to check following a case involving a 76-year-old woman who had received a photocopy of the document, instead of the original, from the Federal Territory Land and Mines Office in the early 1990s.

“We have one case now, but we suspect there are more. We ask those who have been given a photocopy of the document, to come forward and make a police report, so we can take the next course of action to rectify this matter.

“It would be impossible to transfer the title from temporary to a permanent land title grant without an original copy,” he said.

Earlier, about 1,000 home owners in Taman Kepong were left in limbo after discovering that they had only temporary land titles to their homes.

With assistance from the action group, Kepong MP Dr Tan Seng Giaw and the Federal Territory Land Office, 80% of home owners secured permanent land titles to their homes in the 40-year-old neighbourhood.

Arumugam told affected residents they could meet up with the Action Group this Sunday at 3pm at the Pemadam office in Jalan Kuang Bulan, Kepong for assistance in the matter.