A villager who claimed 15,000 yuan from his fifth-generation ancestral grave was ordered to compensate the developer 30,000 yuan. Is this reasonable?
According to media reports, villagers in Liusuozhuang, Linqing City, Shandong Province, said that five ancestral tombs were destroyed by developers and some of the remains were thrown away. After the villagers stopped the construction from continuing, they were sued by the developer. The court ordered the developer to pay 15,000 yuan for moving the grave, and the villagers compensated the developer for more than 30,000 yuan in losses. The court's decision can be said to be reasonable, and we will analyze it slowly. Developers who dig up people's ancestral graves should pay compensation, but whose ancestral graves are not known
In our country's traditional philosophy, there are three most unethical things: seize someone's house, sleep with someone's wife, and dig up someone's ancestral grave! Chinese people even more worship their ancestors and attach great importance to their ancestral tombs. Many people believe that the feng shui of their ancestral tombs is very important and must not be destroyed. It is related to the fate of future generations. Some people even spend a lot of money to repair their ancestral tombs just to gain the blessings of their ancestors. Of course, this is all superstitious. However, the importance of ancestral graves in the minds of Chinese people is self-evident, and it is extremely unethical to dig up people's ancestral graves. A real estate company in Linqing, Shandong Province acquired a plot of land in Liusuozhuang Village in accordance with the law in 2017 and planned to conduct real estate development. In August of that year, the developer's construction team excavated five underground tombs on the site during construction. Five villagers, including Liu Moumou, said that the excavated tombs were the ancestral tombs of their Liu family.
So the villagers in the village believed that the construction party had dug their ancestral graves, so they forcibly stopped the construction. As a result, the project was suspended for more than a year, resulting in an increase in the overall construction cost of the project. So the developer took five villagers who obstructed the project to court in August 2019, claiming economic losses of 300,000 yuan.
What is puzzling is that since the five villagers believed that it was their ancestral tomb, why didn't the developer negotiate the relocation of the ancestral tomb when they first started construction? According to the developer, what they purchased was pure land, and there were several ancestral graves there. However, the local government had paid the relevant personnel to relocate, but the specific location of the graves was not found at that time.
None of the five villagers knew the exact location of their ancestral tombs. However, after digging out the graves, they insisted that it was their ancestral tombs. This is puzzling. The whereabouts of their ancestral tombs have not been known for many years. Development When Shang dug it out, he recognized his ancestor and returned to his clan. There must be a suspicion of competing for profit.
Regardless of whether the excavated graves are really the ancestors of the five villagers, the developer should compensate for the relocation costs to appease the villagers' emotions. The villagers forcibly blocked the developer's construction and should be punished
Let's put aside whether the dug graves are really the ancestral graves of five villagers. They did not actively negotiate to find new homes for their ancestors, but they forcibly blocked the developer's construction. , brought huge economic losses to the developer, and openly asked for mental damage compensation, which was 4.1 million at the outset, which is not much different from blackmail.
When the tombs of ancestors were destroyed, why would the spirits of descendants be damaged? To put it bluntly, it is just taking the affairs of the ancestors for one's own benefit. Could it be that after taking money, the spirit will become better and the ancestral graves can be restored?
On the contrary, if the Liu clan took the 4.1 million, not only would their ancestral graves not be able to be placed in the same place as before, they would have to find another place. In China, where resettlement is important, this is actually not a good choice.
To sum up, in fact, it is clear that the ancestral grave is just a bargaining chip in the lawsuit between the Liu family and the developer. As long as the price is in place, the relocation will be carried out correctly. The court's decision is reasonable and takes into account legal principles and human feelings as well as the developer's interests. Benefit.
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