Andhra Pradesh - Anantapur   

Revenue, police officials remove encroachments

Staff Reporter

ANANTAPUR: The Revenue Department on Monday removed encroachments -- hutments raised in about two acres of Government and private land, near bus station complex. Four persons, who tried to resist the encroachment removal, were arrested by the police.

Armed with the complaints of encroachment of their lands by private land owners and journalists, who were given Government land, the revenue and police officials reached the spot in the morning and told the hut dwellers to evacuate the place immediately. They had been told to vacate the land a couple of times earlier too.

With the help of an earthmover the officials razed the encroachments as the dwellers packed their belongings and vacated the hutments. One Chakali Sriramulu and three others, who had allegedly `permitted' the poor to erect the hutments on the place, were arrested by the police, when they tried to resist the effort.

In all, about 150 huts were removed in the exercise.

Though a few dwellers informed the police and revenue officials that those who were arrested had, in fact, collected money from them for allowing them to raise the huts, they refused to give their complaint in writing.

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