illegal encroachment

OpIndia ground report: Benches allocated from Congress leader’s grant, pillars and wire fencing: Multiple illegal mazars built around Ranjit Sagar dam area, Jamnagar

OpIndia captured an exhaustive view of the encroachment on Ranjit Sagar Dam. We found that not only have unlawful dargahs and tombs been built on thousands of square feet of…

Jalgaon Pandav Wada Case: SC orders ‘Mosque’ authorities to hand over keys to govt, allows entry of Hindus to temples without any hindrance

Supreme Court on 19th April ruled that the keys to a 'Mosque' in Erandol Taluka, Jalgaon, will stay with the municipal council

Action against encroachments continues in Gujarat, after Dwarka and Somnath, three illegal Dargahs bulldozed in Kutch: Details

The administration conducted the demolition drive amidst stringent police security with three dargahs bulldozed

Multi-floor buildings, showrooms and madrasas built on illegally occupied land: Bulldozer action in Lucknow’s Akbarnagar after CM Yogi holds meeting

A Jagran report says that there are 1068 residential illegal constructions in Akbarnagar I and II. Many big illegal houses up to four storeys and madrassas have been built in it.

Amethi: DM says govt land secured from illegal encroachment, busts false claims that state razed elderly woman’s private property by Mohammed Zubair & his ilk

Countering the misleading claims that the elderly woman's property was built on private land, the district administration clarified that it was government property and only an illegally built wall had…

Bangladesh: Luftar and Mahmud forcibly occupy ancestral land of Hindu family, build boundary wall flouting court and local arbitration

Lutfar Khan and Mahmud Khan bypassed the court proceedings and began constructing a boundary wall on the Hindi family's land on Sunday (16th February).

Chhattisgarh: Muslims occupy 125 PM Awas houses by forcefully evicting beneficiary families, build a tomb structure and perform exorcisms

Exorcism is performed by constructing a tomb-like structure on houses numbered 199 and 200. Both of these homes have been given the titles Shankar Dharu and Sukhdev. However, an individual named Zakir…

UP: Five illegal under-construction colonies demolished in Bareilly, Rizwan Khan, Taufiq, Jagannath Rathore and others issued warnings

On Wednesday (14th February), the Bareilly Development Authority (BDA) conducted a demolition drive to clear illegal colonies in the area.

Haldwani violence: Police arrest Junaid, Nizam, Mehboob and 27 others, efforts on to arrest main accused Abdul Malik

Uttarakhand Police released a list of the names of 25 arrested accused rioters namely Junaid, Mohammad Nizam, Mehboob alias Maku, Shahzad alias Kanakada etc.

Haldwani where Islamists rioted, destroyed temple to usurp land and forced Hindus to live in fear: Some disturbing facts OpIndia uncovered last year

This was, however, not the first time that tensions have flared in Haldwani, Uttarakhand. Radical Islamists have targeted this place earlier too