bengaluru a special cabinet meeting on tuesday evening approved the amendment to the karnataka scheduled castes and scheduled tribes prevention of transfer of certain lands act of 1978 to circumvent the reasonable time frame observation by the supreme court in a 2018 case of scst land grantsthe decision by the state government was taken after dalit activists and other scst communities had met chief minister siddaramaiah seeking reprieve from the proposed time framesafter the 2018 sc observation a lot of courts started giving judgements citing 12 to 30 years as a reasonable time limit and disposed of cases without giving the scst communities a chance to reclaim their lands this has now been addressed by the state government by removing the ambiguity said a cabinet ministerit is said the amended ptcl act will now come before the legislature in the next two days to be approved by both the houses and provide a significant political capital to the congress governmentaccording to data gathered by certain dalit groups over 18172 cases under ptcl are pending at various levels of the judiciary since 2018 after the sc observation which will now have to be fast tracked and disposed of in favor of the scst communitiesin many of these cases a lot of land was alienated by people without knowing that this land was granted to only scst communities this led to confusion after many years when subsequent generations of families realized that it was their land to evade these problems after the sc observation we had sought for the intervention of the state government said a dss leadermeanwhile the state cabinet also approved a decision to reduce the burden on the high courts by delegating the motor vehicles accident compensation cases which are seeking compensation of less than rs 1 crore from the high court to the district courtsaccording to informed ministers the decision to delegate the accident compensation cases will see over 2 lakh case burden reduced on the high court and fast track compensation cases which are pending for over 10 to 15 yearshenceforth only those accident compensation cases valued at rs 1 crore and above will be heard at the high court said another minister