RANCHI, Dec. 15 -- Leader of Opposition and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) state president Babulal Marandi on Monday urged chief minister Hemant Soren to take immediate action against the officials who cleared a private residential project on land owned by RIMS, and also sought government intervention to ensure relief for innocent homebuyers who purchased flats in a four-storeyed apartment building that is being demolished on the direction of the high court.

Since last week, the Ranchi Municipal Corporation (RMC), acting on directions from the Jharkhand high court, which took suo motu cognisance of the matter last month, has been clearing all encroachments from the land parcel known as DIG Ground, owned by the Rajendra Institute of Medical...