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Explained: ‘Nazul lands’ and the controversy surrounding the Bill passed by the Yogi govt in UP

OpIndia Staff - 4 August, 2024

Amid the fearmongering about the bill surrounding Nazul lands, it was referred to the Select Committee of the Vidhan Parishad on Thursday (1st August).

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‘Misuse of SC/ST Act to protect land mafia’: Allahabad HC quashes criminal proceedings against Dehradun couple, says Act misused for personal vendetta

OpIndia Staff - 22 May, 2024

Quashing proceedings in SC/ST Act, Justice Prashant Kumar observed that there was no evidence against Sethis that they were aware of Vasudev’s caste or used caste-related language against him.

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Land mafia challenge Nitish Kumar’s Jal Jeevan Hariyali Mission, ponds in Darbhanga encroached, vanish overnight from under administration’s nose

OpIndia Staff - 30 December, 2023

As per reports, locals said that the police had visited the site a number of times before and had also seized equipment, yet, the administration was caught unawares when they found the pond-site levelled.

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UP: Unnao district administration cracks down on land mafia Naseem Ahmed, property worth over Rs 1 billion seized

ANI - 25 September, 2023

The action was taken on the orders of the District Magistrate (DM) of Unnao, Uttar Pradesh, and the announcement was made by playing 'dhol' in the presence of Unnao Sadar Tehsildar, CO City, and revenue personnel.

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Uttar Pradesh: Over 1.2 lakh pending cases related to property inheritance settled in less than 1 month under ‘Varasat Abhiyan’

ANI - 27 June, 2023

The campaign, which will continue till July 31, seeks to settle inheritance-related cases that have been pending in Village Sabhas for several years now.

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UP: CM Yogi directs officials to teach a befitting lesson to land mafias

ANI - 7 March, 2023

CM Yogi Adityanath on his visit to Gorakhpur directed the officials to teach befitting lessons to land mafias.

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‘Hindu refugees from Pakistan, Bangladesh were given housing plots in the land we seized from mafias’: CM Yogi

OpIndia Staff - 7 January, 2022

The UP government has created a 'land bank' from land that were freed from encroachments of criminals and land mafia. The lands are being used for welfare, infra and industries.

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‘Gorakhpur Wale Baba Hain’: How popular singers are hailing CM Yogi’s work in UP ahead of elections

Anurag - 10 November, 2021

Songs on CM Yogi are gaining a lot of traction among the public ahead of UP Assembly elections. The videos have lakhs of views on YouTube and are being widely shared on social media.

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Land seized from mafias will be used to build houses for the poor and Dalits: UP CM Yogi Adityanath

OpIndia Staff - 19 August, 2021

UP CM Yogi Adityanath was speaking in the assembly while announcing the state's supplementary budget.

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‘Not farmer leader but land mafia’: Muzaffarnagar farmer alleges Rakesh Tikait occupied her land, pleads to CM Yogi for justice

OpIndia Staff - 4 June, 2021

"Rakesh Tikait is not a farmer leader but a very big land mafia. They forcibly occupy lands of small farmers", said the woman farmer from Muzaffarnagar.

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