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Andhra Pradesh
Land survey exercise triggers protest
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VIZIANAGARAM: The I-town police took nine dalits into preventive custody when they obstructed survey of land by revenue and housing officials at Thotapalem here on Thursday, according to Sub-Inspector Ramana Murty. .
Families of the victims told visiting reporters that 14 dalit families had ‘purchased’ 10.76 acres of agriculture land surrendered as surplus under the Land Ceiling Act and had been tilling it since then. They had also been paying cess regularly.
Recently, Minister for Housing Botcha Satyanarayana reportedly asked revenue and housing officials to survey the land for construction of houses under Indiramma programme.
When the officials began survey of the land in the morning, the SCs staged a protest and obstructed officials from discharging their duty.
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