India, March 20 -- The Goa government has ordered closure of 23 beach shacks on charges that they had sub-let the shack won in a draw of lots to people from outside the state.

The state tourism department said the action was taken after incidents of violence along the beach shacks turned the spotlight on subletting of shacks.

"The department, after taking cognizance of the reports of illegal subletting, had carried out a thorough inspection drive across beach shacks. Based on the reports of the inspection drive, a total of 110 show cause notices were issued to the violators out of which, 54 proceedings have been concluded. Out of this, 31 notices were disposed of as no violations were noticed while 23 operators were directed to close do...