The State government has set up a special court headed by retired High Court judge Justice H N Nar-ayan for speedy trial of cases pertaining to land encroachments.
Retired district judges Rayappa Hanumanthappa and B Balakrishna (judicial members), Commissioner for Survey, Settlement and Land Records Munish Moudgil and Special Deputy Commissioner, Bengal-uru Urban Hephsiba Rani Korlapati (revenue members) are part of the the special court.
The order setting up the court was issued on March 22. Chairman and members of the special court will serve a 3-year term. The court is set up as per the provisions of Karnataka Land Grabbing (Prohibition) Act, 2011. The Act will help in putting a curb on grabbing of government land, including properties coming under Wakf or religious institutions, charitable endowments, local authorities or other statutory or non-statutory bodies owned, controlled or managed by government.
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