Synopsis: The high court’s scathing remark came after the Centre informed that it cannot waive the loans of the Chooralmala and Mundakkai landslide victims, stating that such action was beyond its jurisdiction and not feasible.

The Union government has failed the people, the High Court of Kerala observed on Wednesday, 8 October, in response to the Centre’s submission that loans availed by Wayanad landslide victims could not be waived.

While making the scathing remark, a Division Bench of Justice AK Jayasankaran Nambiar and Justice Jobin Sebastian indicated that it would issue an interim order halting recovery proceedings against the affected families.

The court was hearing a suo motu case initiated in the wake of the devastating landslides that struck Wayanad on 30 Jul

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