Kanpur: Yogi continues crackdown on land mafia, three land grabbers expelled from district
India Today
The Yogi government has continued its crackdown on the land mafia in Uttar Pradesh after coming to power for the second consecutive term. Kanpur police expelled three grabbers from the district for six months for illegally occupying the land of the police shooting range.
The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh has once again initiated a crackdown on the land mafia occupying free public and private land grabbed under the patronage of those who are in power. Three accused land grabbers, who have old cases against them under the Gunda Act, have been expelled from the district.
On Monday, the Additional Commissioner of Police Court, Anand Kulkarni, expelled three land grabbers involved in the land mafia from Kanpur district for a period of six months, sending a strong message to the offenders, thus tightening the noose. The land mafia had illegally occupied the land of the police shooting range.
ADCP West Brajesh Kumar Srivastava told India Today, "A total of 28 cases have been registered against the accused at various police stations for selling the government land. They were also involved in other illegal activities and legal action has been taken against them."
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Earlier in 2020, the land mafias Ramdas, Sureshpal and his henchmen had taken illegal possession of the land of the police shooting range in Khatri. Later on, when the case of selling of 12 bighas of government land came to light, prompting the Kanpur police to take swift action. Police officials roped in the Kanpur Development Authority and Irrigation Department and hundreds of bighas of land have been confiscated from illegal occupants to date.
Police had then filed a case against the accused at Kohna police station and action was also taken against them under the Gangster and Goonda Act.
In February 2021, the state government said that the Uttar Pradesh revenue department has so far freed 67,000 acres of land from the land mafia during the tenure of the current government. This was possible after the state government formed an anti-land mafia task force in 2017 to free the government land and priority was given to make sports grounds on it.
