The property developer in a legal tussle with Kampung Gatco settlers over a rubber plantation has rubbished allegations that the firm is "stealing" rubber logs from the land.

Thamarai Holdings COO R Ramalingam Pillai said they are the legal landowners and they had the Sales and Purchase Agreement (SPA) to confirm this.

"How can one steal from one's own land?" asked Ramalingam Pillai when interviewed recently.

He explained that his company had to remove old trees due to poor yield for a replanting exercise...