Land encroachment
The state unit of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Odisha on Tuesday staged a dharana. This demonstration was staged in Bhubaneshwar demanding a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the alleged multi-crore land scam in Odisha. The Gangapatana land encroachment case on the city’s outskirts and irregularities in the allotment of lands had been a [...] Continue Reading »
The high court on Tuesday has asked the government to come out with a timeline for recovering 1.1 million acres of government land in and around Bangalore and across the state. After disapproving the pace at which the government is moving to reclaim its lands, a division bench headed by Chief Justice D H Waghela [...] Continue Reading »
The Punjab and Haryana High Court today ordered interim stay on construction on a petition alleging that MLA Bibi Jagir Kaur had encroached upon about 20 acres of Begowal Nagar Panchayat land. The order by Justice K. Kannan came on an application by Begowal resident George Subh against the Punjab Government and other respondents. Acting [...] Continue Reading »
A notice has been issued to the Centre seeking its answer on a PIL seeking CBI probe into alleged encroachment and exploitation of defence land across the country, by the Supreme Court on Monday. A committee headed by Chief Justice P Sathasivam decided to hear the petition as per which mismanagement of defence lands leading [...] Continue Reading »
Thiruvananthapuram- The Kerala government has revised the guidelines governing the ownership of constructions on wetlands and paddy fields. According to the circular issued by the local self-government department in 2012, the ownership of a property converted from a paddy field or wetland or a house constructed on the property cannot be changed for 10 years. [...] Continue Reading »
Hyderabad- Rangareddy district administration has rejected more than 75,000 applications with regard to regularisation of encroached government land as the applicants failed to furnish proper proof to confirm from when they possessed those plots. The applicants were asked to provide proof to show that they have been holding the possession of the land before 2003 [...] Continue Reading »
Delhi NCR- National Green Tribunal (NGT) has issued notices to the principal conservator of forest and the chief secretary of Haryana, with regard to the encroachment of common hilly and forest land in Aravalis by private builders. The issue was brought to the notice of the Green Tribunal through a news report considering the possible [...] Continue Reading »
The Urban Property Ownership Record (UPOR) project recently surveyed the documentation of 2.75 lakh properties in Mysore city. The UPOR project aims in recording details entailing to property and will also contain information related to fraudulent transactions of properties and land encroachment. This project has been headed by Karnataka state chief minister. Chief Minister [...] Continue Reading »
Odisha government is all set to pave in a new law to keep a check on the illegal encroachments of land in the state. The new law will be similar as per the laws issued in the states of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. Land encroachment has been noticed in all the major districts of the [...] Continue Reading »
Land encroachments in city limits of Kochi will now be monitored. A special team has been appointed by the Kochi government to check upon land encroachments to trace unauthorized land acquisition by private parties in Thiruvananthapuram. The town planning department will be headed by an assistant engineer along with four other members. The team will prepare a detailed report [...] Continue Reading »
