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On Monday, the Karnataka Police arrested a man, who attempted to grab 512 acres of forest land in Karnataka's Chikkamagaluru after obtaining court orders based on fake documents following a case registered by the Mudigere Police. (Express Photo)

Karnataka man who tried to grab 512 acres of Chikkamagaluru forest land held after police complaint

December 16, 2025 3:58 pm

Earlier, Forest Minister Eshwar Khandre had written to CM Siddaramaiah seeking a CID or SIT probe into the alleged role of officials and government lawyers in facilitating the grab of government and forest land.

Forest land or not? Religious group’s property in South Delhi sparks fresh dispute

September 23, 2025 3:53 pm

RSSB argued that its land cannot be treated as uncultivated land or as surplus gaon sabha land since it has been leased out by the gaon sabha, and is “cultivated land”

The Himachal Pradesh High Court Tuesday commuted the death sentence of two convicts — Chander Sharma, 23, and Vikrant Bakshi, 25 — to life imprisonment "till their last breath" while acquitting Tajinder Pal Singh, 27, while holding that the “material on record does not show that the accused cannot be reformed”. A court in Shimla in 2018 had awarded death to the trio.

Himachal Pradesh High Court expresses concern over repeated encroachments

July 17, 2025 12:40 pm

A division bench of Justice Vivek Singh Thakur and Justice Bipin Chandra Negi instructed the state government to come up with a record about how much earning was made by the encroachers using the encroached forest land in the state.

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Why efforts to reclaim the Ridge — Delhi’s lungs — is no easy task

September 09, 2024 9:30 am

Over the years, vast swathes of the Ridge area — that act as the Capital’s lungs — have been built upon. Less than a fourth of the “encroached land” has been freed so far, documents show.

Union Environment Ministry seeks report from Karnataka on officer who allegedly mutated forest lands into revenue

November 14, 2023 6:26 pm

N Ravindra Kumar, who was serving as the deputy conservator of forest (forest mobile squad) in Hassan in February 2022, had made the allegations.

Karnataka Forest dept issues eviction order to man for encroaching 5 acre forest land

October 24, 2023 5:52 pm

The order was issued by N Ravindrakumar, Deputy Conservator of Forest, Bengaluru Urban.

Karnataka DCF suspended for permitting quarrying in deemed forest land

June 13, 2023 7:42 pm

In 2022, the Karnataka government submitted an affidavit to the Supreme Court, stating that the deemed forest land extends to 3.3 lakh hectares.

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180 hectares of forest land given to industries in 2 years, says Gujarat govt

March 21, 2023 8:07 am

The land to Arcelor group was given in 2021 after getting final permission from the Government of India, the government stated in a written reply to a question by Congress MLA Arjun Modwadia. The government stated the land was given at a total cost of Rs 61.85 crore.

Despite orders, issuance of eviction notices to forest land encroachers stopped in Karnataka

June 24, 2022 8:42 am

The order copy, accessed by indianexpress.com, reads that the officials were directed not to issue notices to the applicants of FRA till the inspection process is completed.

Karnataka: Case registered against private resort owners for ‘encroaching’ forest land

March 10, 2022 6:46 pm

The encroached land is part of a 7,300-acre area in Sakleshpura that was declared as forest land in 1920, but the said area has not yet been notified by the state government as a reserved forest.