A couple in a coastal city in south-central Vietnam is poised to carry out litigation against the provincial chairman for withdrawing their land, a court has said.

The civil court of Khanh Hoa Province said on Wednesday that Huynh Trung Duy and his wife in Tan Lap Ward, Nha Trang City, should carry out the legal proceedings of the administrative case it had accepted in November 2015.

The two previously sued the chairman of the provincial People’s Committee for withdrawing their land to the north of Cam Ranh Peninsula in Cam Ranh City, Khanh Hoa, with insufficient compensation, the court said, citing a file.

According to his complaint, Duy’s family possesses over 43,800 hectares of land in northern Cam Ranh Peninsula.

Local authorities granted Duy the rights to use the land in 2007, according to the file.

The Khanh Hoa People’s Committee then permitted a business to launch a tourism project on the land without notifying Duy, the landowner, the file said, adding that he was unaware of the conflict until September 2014, when the Cam Ranh People’s Committee informed him about the land withdrawal.

The Cam Ranh Land Fund Development Center was responsible for compensation and land withdrawal proceedings, but it failed to offer legal pecuniary remedy regulated in the current law, according to the couple’s complaint.

Meanwhile, the Khanh Hoa People’s Committee chairman insisted that the withdrawal and compensation process strictly followed government decrees and the province’s regulations.

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