LUCKNOW, April 8 -- In a coordinated crackdown on land fraud, Lucknow Municipal Corporation (LMC) and the revenue department on Monday demolished encroachments on government land worth Rs.25 crore in Sarsawan village, under Sarojini Nagar tehsil, of Lucknow, LMC said in a note to media.

The land, measuring 2.274 hectares, had been illegally occupied by land mafias and was being developed for residential plots. Acting on the orders from divisional commissioner Roshan Jacob and municipal commissioner Inderjit Singh, the joint team razed the unauthorised structures using earthmovers, LMC said

Additional municipal commissioner Pankaj Srivastava formed the team, while naib tehsildar Neeraj Katiyar led the operation on the ground. Police and ...