Guwahati, May 18 -- The Supreme Court of India has directed all State Governments and Union Territories to transfer possession of lands officially recorded as 'Forest Land' but currently held by Revenue Departments to the respective Forest Departments.

This directive came while the apex court was adjudicating a case exposing a purported nexus between politicians, bureaucrats, and builders.

This alleged collusion resulted in them illegally converting valuable forest land for commercial development by using the guise of resettling individuals from backward classes, whose ancestral agricultural land they had acquired for public projects.

According to Verdictum, a three-judge bench comprising Chief Justice of India (CJI) B.R. Gavai, Justic...