Hyderabad, May 21 -- The Hyderabad Disaster Response and Assets protection Agency (HYDRAA) commissioner, AV Ranganath on Wednesday, May 21, conducted a field inspection at Ranganatha Nagar in Lingampally, following a series of complaints filed through the Prajavani.

Encroachments during COVID-19 pandemic

Plot owners from Ranganatha Nagar met the HYDRAA commissioner and alleged that their entire layout, developed in 1985 across 184 acres with more than 850 plots, had been illegally occupied. They said that during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021, a group backed by influential real estate players took control of the layout, demolished existing houses, and converted roads, parks, and even a temple into agricultural land.

The complainants, wh...