Bengaluru, March 10 -- A case was filed on Monday against Congress Overseas Chief Sam Pitroda alias Satyanarayan Gangaram Pitroda and others in the Special Anti-Land Grabbing Court. The case involves the alleged illegal use of government land in Bengaluru, Karnataka.

Sam Pitroda, the president of the Congress (I) overseas unit, Darshan Shankar, the founder of the FRLHT (Foundation for Revitalization of Local Health Traditions) organisation and four senior Karnataka Forest Department officials are accused of allegedly grabbing government land.

In 1996, FRLHT obtained a 5-hectare (12.35-acre) piece of reserve forest land in Jarakabande Kaval, near Yelahanka, on a five-year lease from the Karnataka State Forest Department. This lease was r...