Hyderabad, July 29 -- The Hyderabad Disaster Response, Assets Monitoring and Protection Agency (HYDRAA) has received multiple complaints on land grabbers using religious structures as a shield to encroach upon government and private lands.

The complainants alleged that when they questioned the encroachments, the perpetrators were mobilising members of the religious organisations to intimidate and attack them.

During the Prajavani grievance redressal weekly programme held at Buddha Bhavan in Secunderabad on Monday, HYDRAA received 51 complaints from petitioners, with some of them being encroachment of roads, parks and layouts by land grabbers, planting religious flags and constructing religious structures to encroach upon lands.

At Chik...