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FIR Filed Against Ansals, Officials in Farmhouse Land Fraud

Representative image created by AI GURUGRAM: After a decade of a complaint regarding extensive land manipulation, the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) initiated an FIR on Friday against Ansal Housing, its partner firms, a former patwari, and officials from the revenue department for constructing illegal farmhouses in the Sohna Aravalis. These officials have been charged with altering the classification of land from ‘gair mumkin pahad’ (protected uncultivable hills per the Punjab Land Preservation Act) to ‘farmhouse’, ‘roads’, and ‘houses’ in revenue records dating back to 1995. This alteration allowed the development of farmhouses on protected Aravali land, breaching the Aravali Notification of…

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Fifty Farmhouses Defend Aravalis Against Bulldozers This Week

Representative Image GURUGRAM: Starting from the first week of July, illegal structures—including farmhouses, walls, banquet halls, shops, and cafes built in the city’s protected Aravalis—will be demolished. Forest department officials confirmed that a survey conducted earlier this year identified fifty such illegally constructed farmhouses. Show-cause notices have been issued for new constructions on protected Aravali land in the Behrampur, Ghata, Gwalpahari, and Sakatpur areas. Property owners have 15 days to dismantle these structures voluntarily; failure to comply will lead to departmental demolition. A forest officer stated, “We began issuing notices on June 3, and by June 26, around 50 notices…