Land Grab by Government in Hyderabad area

prasadbbabu · Telugu Puli Joined: 25 Dec 2006 Posts: 652

Recently I heard that Andhra Government went to the prime land areas, may be other areas too, and either placed a pole and notice or put a fence and notice in some areas where the individuals owned land for a decade or more. In that scenario, the owner was forced to go through different layers of Government to prove the land was not infact the Government land. One of such a land grab is in Shamsabad airport area where the owner bought it from a judge's son about 15 years ago. The owner feels that the market went very high recently, thus the present Government trying to grab besides getting paid tax over the past 15 years and 5 to 6 ownership transfers existing prior to their purchase and no where shows it was Government assigned land. Based upon the current price of market in that area and the size of land, the price involved is in many many many crores!

Are these scenarios common? Did you come across such situations? How the system works or how it was expected to work?