Bhagalpur riots: Process to restore land to 17 families begins

The Bhagalpur district administration sent a team to Garhotia on Thursday and got measured a 7,405-square-foot plot illegally held by one Patel Yadav of Anantpur Tola. Mustakeem,one of the 17 beneficiaries,said: Plots were measured and photographed. But we have not yet received possession slips. We have been asked to wait for possession.

Meanwhile,the All India Congress Committee has asked the partys Bihar unit to send a team to Garhotia and submit a report.

Bihar Congress media in-charge Premchand Mishra said: Nitish Kumars tall claims of restoring land to Muslims stand exposed. This also shows how bureaucrats have been keeping the CM in the dark about facts.

He said a Congress team led by Bihar party president Ashok Kumar Choudhary would visit Garhotia Friday,meet the 17 Muslim families and other villagers and submit a detailed report.