Land encroachment by Kumaraswamy: Karnataka government begins eviction drive in Ramanagara
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Land encroachment by Kumaraswamy: Karnataka government begins eviction drive in Ramanagara

Hindustan Times  

The Karnataka Revenue Department on Tuesday launched an operation to clear encroachments on 14 acres of government land in Ramanagara district, allegedly occupied by the family of Union Minister HD Kumaraswamy. Acting on the directives of the Karnataka High Court, authorities initiated the eviction drive with the assistance of district officials and police personnel, news agency PTI reported. In January this year, the state government constituted a Special Investigation Team to probe the encroachment of government land in Kethaganahalli village, Bidadi, in Ramanagara district. The SIT found that 14.04 acres of land in survey numbers 7, 8, 9, 10, 16, 17, and 79 had been encroached upon, based on a joint survey conducted by the Revenue Department and the Survey Settlement Department, sources said.

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Karnataka government reclaims land ‘encroached’ by HDK
2 days, 20 hours ago

Karnataka government reclaims land ‘encroached’ by HDK

Hindustan Times  

The state revenue department on Tuesday initiated measures to clear the encroachment of government land allegedly by Union minister HD Kumaraswamy in Ramanagara district, with the development coming a day after the state’s high court issued stern warnings to officials over delay in implementing the court’s earlier eviction orders. As part of the eviction operation, led by Ramanagara deputy commissioner …

Karnataka: Eviction of Encroached Govt Lands by Union Minister, BJP MP Begins
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3 days, 9 hours ago

Karnataka: Eviction of Encroached Govt Lands by Union Minister, BJP MP Begins

Deccan Chronicle  

Bengaluru: As per the directions of High Court of Karnataka, a team of officials led by Ramnagar Deputy Commissioner Yeshwanth Gurukar on Tuesday began markings in various survey numbers at Kethaganahalli near Bidadi of Ramnagar district to reclaim government lands spread across in various survey numbers. The markings by revenue officials includes lands belonging to former Chief Minister and Union …

Officials clear encroached land near HD Kumaraswamy's farmhouse after court rap
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4 days ago

Officials clear encroached land near HD Kumaraswamy's farmhouse after court rap

India Today  

A day after the Karnataka High Court questioned the delay in executing eviction orders in a land encroachment case involving Union Minister HD Kumaraswamy, authorities launched an encroachment clearance operation near his farmhouse in Ramanagara district. Ramanagara Deputy Commissioner Yashwant V Gurukar and Additional SP Suresh oversaw the operation as the Revenue Department, in coordination with survey officials, began reclaiming …

Karnataka High Court questions delay in eviction in HD Kumaraswamy land case
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5 days ago

Karnataka High Court questions delay in eviction in HD Kumaraswamy land case

India Today  

The Karnataka High Court has raised concerns over the delay in executing its order to remove encroachments in a land case involving Union Minister of Heavy Industries HD Kumaraswamy. Expressing strong displeasure at the Revenue Department’s inaction, the court took a serious view of the situation and sought accountability from the authorities. Government advocates informed the bench that 14 acres …

Kerala launches eviction drive to clear encroachments Idukki
1 year, 5 months ago

Kerala launches eviction drive to clear encroachments Idukki

Hindustan Times  

Kochi: A special task force constituted by the Kerala government cleared an illegally encroached piece of land belonging to an individual in Chinnakanal panchayat of Idukki district on Thursday in what is tipped to be the start of a major eviction drive in the fragile hill station of Munnar, officials familiar with the matter said. The action of the STF …

Karnataka officials will get monthly targets for reclaiming encroached govt land
1 year, 7 months ago

Karnataka officials will get monthly targets for reclaiming encroached govt land

The Hindu  

The State Government will fix monthly targets for officials to remove encroachment on government property across Karnataka, said Minister for Revenue Krishna Byre Gowda. On August 8, the Minister told reporters in Mysuru that the administration will take up a campaign against encroachment of government land and give targets to officials to ensure that the encroachment is cleared. A meeting …

Officials given targets to clear encroachment on government land: Karnataka Minister
1 year, 7 months ago

Officials given targets to clear encroachment on government land: Karnataka Minister

The Hindu  

Revenue Minister Krishna Byre Gowda on Friday said officials had been given targets for clearing government land of encroachments in their jurisdiction. The revenue inspectors would be given the power to clear encroachments and also protect them, irrespective of political clout of land sharks, Mr. Byre Gowda said. Mr. Byre Gowda said he had taken up a State tour and …

Anti-encroachment drive in J&K halted after Centre steps in
2 years, 1 month ago

Anti-encroachment drive in J&K halted after Centre steps in

The Hindu  

The month-long anti-encroachment drive in Jammu and Kashmir to retrieve government land has been halted following an intervention by the Union Home Ministry, a government source told The Hindu. A J&K administration official, however, denied that the drive had been halted and said that “geo-tagging and geo-referencing” of the retrieved land was going on. The official said the drive to …

Assam Govt Begins Eviction Drive To Clear 'Encroachment' In Wildlife Sanctuary In Sonitpur
2 years, 1 month ago

Assam Govt Begins Eviction Drive To Clear 'Encroachment' In Wildlife Sanctuary In Sonitpur

ABP News  

Tezpur: The Assam government on Tuesday commenced an eviction drive to clear "encroachment" in Burhachapori Wildlife Sanctuary in Sonitpur district. Sonitpur Deputy Commissioner Deba Kumar Mishra claimed that "thousands of people illegally occupied the forest area for decades" and the administration has decided to clear "encroachment on 1,892 hectares of land" during the ongoing exercise. Notably, the state government had …

Anti-encroachment drive intensified in Kashmir: Officials
2 years, 1 month ago

Anti-encroachment drive intensified in Kashmir: Officials

India TV News  

The anti-encroachment drive by Jammu and Kashmir administration intensified on Saturday as the land illegally occupied by 'influential persons' was retrieved at many places in the valley. On Friday, Jammu and Kashmir Lt Governor Manoj Sinha assured that 'only influential and powerful people who misused their position and violated the law to encroach upon the state land' would face action. …

Stop Assam's 'selective and discriminatory' eviction drive in winter: Badruddin Ajmal writes to PM Modi, Shah
2 years, 2 months ago

Stop Assam's 'selective and discriminatory' eviction drive in winter: Badruddin Ajmal writes to PM Modi, Shah

India TV News  

Anti-encroachment drive: Badruddin Ajmal, All India United Democratic Front president and Lok Sabha MP, wrote two identical but separate letters to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah urging them to direct the Assam government to stop the ongoing eviction drive across the state. This inhuman action: Ajmal He informed Modi and Shah that the Assam government …

Assam: Govt's eviction drive to free 450 hectares of land from illegal encroachment, Congress MLA Sherman Ali detained
2 years, 2 months ago

Assam: Govt's eviction drive to free 450 hectares of land from illegal encroachment, Congress MLA Sherman Ali detained

Op India  

After the administration in Assam’s Lakhimpur on Tuesday began a massive eviction drive to clear vast swathes of forest land, Lakhimpur SP BM Rajkhowa said that around 450 hectares of land would be freed from the encroachers. Earlier on December 26, the district administration of Barpeta district of Assam carried out a massive eviction drive against encroachers. The eviction drive …

Haldwani eviction stayed, Supreme Court says 50,000 people can't be uprooted overnight
2 years, 2 months ago

Haldwani eviction stayed, Supreme Court says 50,000 people can't be uprooted overnight

India Today  

The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the Uttarakhand High Court’s decision ordering authorities to remove encroachments from railway land in Uttarakhand’s Haldwani. Stressing on the human aspect of the case at hand, the Supreme Court said a solution needs to be worked out keeping in view the people who face eviction from allegedly encroached railway land in Haldwani’s Banbhoolpura area. …

Supreme Court to hear pleas against Uttarakhand HC's Haldwani eviction order today
2 years, 2 months ago

Supreme Court to hear pleas against Uttarakhand HC's Haldwani eviction order today

India Today  

The Supreme Court is likely to hear a batch of petitions on Thursday that challenge the Uttarakhand High Court order based on which evictions were to be carried out on 29 acres of railway land in Haldwani. On December 20, Uttarakhand High Court ordered the removal of encroachments from the railway land in the Banbhoolpura area of Haldwani after giving …

Supreme Court to hear petition filed by against eviction notice by Railways to residents in Haldwani
2 years, 2 months ago

Supreme Court to hear petition filed by against eviction notice by Railways to residents in Haldwani

The Hindu  

Sharafat Khan, resident of a locality in Haldwani town of Uttarakhand, and 10 others have filed a petition in Supreme Court demanding immediate intervention on eviction notices served to over 4,000 families by the Indian Railways. It also has eight mosques, two government inter-colleges, two primary schools, one junior high school, half a dozen private schools, one primary hospital, a …

Drive Against Encroachments in Bengaluru Will Go On, Says Karnataka Revenue Minister
2 years, 6 months ago

Drive Against Encroachments in Bengaluru Will Go On, Says Karnataka Revenue Minister

News 18  

Karnataka Revenue Minister R Ashoka on Tuesday said the drive against encroachments would continue without any discrimination between the rich and the poor in Bengaluru. Meanwhile, in Sarjapura in the city, which saw knee-deep water on the road, the civic agency said it has to remove slabs from the drain inside the Wipro campus. The BBMP also said they removed …

Anti-encroachment drive kicks-off in Bengaluru as govt talks tough after rain havoc
2 years, 6 months ago

Anti-encroachment drive kicks-off in Bengaluru as govt talks tough after rain havoc

Deccan Chronicle  

BENGALURU: The Bengaluru civic body on Monday began a demolition drive within days of the havoc caused by rains-triggered floods in parts of city with Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai asserting that the anti-encroachment offensive would be done on a big scale. The CM said there will be no partisanship in the drive to remove the alleged encroachment of the stormwater …

Massive eviction drive underway in Assam's Sonitpur amid heavy security
2 years, 6 months ago

Massive eviction drive underway in Assam's Sonitpur amid heavy security

India TV News  

Highlights 50 excavators, heavy machinery and larger number of workers were deployed to demolish houses. An eviction drive was conducted in Sonitpur district in Assam to clear 330 acres of land in the midst of heavy security on Saturday morning, said the police. Approximately 50 excavators, heavy machinery, and a larger number of workers were deployed in order to demolish …

Govt. policy is to ensure peaceful eviction: AAG
3 years, 1 month ago

Govt. policy is to ensure peaceful eviction: AAG

The Hindu  

The State government on Thursday told the Madras High Court that it’s policy is to ensure peaceful and not forceful eviction of long-time encroachers of waterbodies and other government poromboke land. Appearing before the first Division Bench of Acting Chief Justice Munishwar Nath Bhandari and Justice D. Bharatha Chakravarthy, Additional Advocate General J. Ravindran said the government was not in …

Darrang Violence: Assam CM Sarma Orders Judicial Probe, Says Eviction Drive ‘Not Done Overnight’
3 years, 5 months ago

Darrang Violence: Assam CM Sarma Orders Judicial Probe, Says Eviction Drive ‘Not Done Overnight’

ABP News  

Guwahati: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Friday said that he has ordered a judicial probe into the violence during eviction drive in Sipajhar in Darrang district, adding over 11 policemen were also injured in the untoward incident. READ: Assam: Cameraman Seen In Viral Police Firing Video Arrested, CID To Probe Sarma said the eviction drive was urgent and …

Land Grabbing Case : Karnataka HC Directs Govt To Produce Steps Taken For Implementing Lokayukta Order Against H D Kumaraswamy
5 years, 2 months ago

Land Grabbing Case : Karnataka HC Directs Govt To Produce Steps Taken For Implementing Lokayukta Order Against H D Kumaraswamy

Live Law  

The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday directed the state government to place on record by January 14, steps taken for implementation of a 2014 order passed by the Lokayukta, in relation to land grabbing case involving former Karnataka Chief Minister, H D Kumaraswamy and others. A division bench of Chief Justice Abhay Oka and Justice Hemant Chandangoudar gave the direction …

Resume eviction drive, urge activists
8 years, 6 months ago

Resume eviction drive, urge activists

Deccan Chronicle  

Chennai: The survey done by the Greater Chennai Corporation, which shows the prevalence of encroachments on water bodies, also poses a serious question on the eviction drive taken up by the district collectors as a flood emergency move. Environmental activists are agitated over the official apathy and feel that the eviction drive should be resumed to save water bodies. Water …

Karnataka CM on anti-encroachment: Big or influential, no one will be spared'
8 years, 7 months ago

Karnataka CM on anti-encroachment: Big or influential, no one will be spared'

Deccan Chronicle  

Mysuru: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Friday said no one, "however big and influential", would be spared for encroaching upon storm-water drains in the city, against which a drive is on. Bengaluru Metropolitan Task force had yesterday filed an FIR against 20 officials from civic agencies, including six retired ones, in connection with encroachment and illegal construction on storm-water drains. …

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