Overview
- Officials were directed to publish on the Forest Department website the names of alleged encroachers, the extent of land involved, and the status of each case.
- The Deputy Chief Minister’s office said an aerial survey identified 76.74 acres of illegal occupation inside the protected Mangalam Peta forest, and it released video and a map from the review.
- Forest officials reported that Preliminary Offence Reports and charge sheets have been filed and that 32.63 acres previously occupied were evicted, with some portions already reclaimed.
- Pawan Kalyan flagged conflicting land records, citing survey numbers where 45.80 acres are listed in records versus 77.54 acres in Webland, and ordered investigations and digitisation of land data.
- Former minister Peddireddy Ramachandra Reddy denied the allegations, calling them politically motivated and citing a 2001 purchase and earlier administrative and court references to the land as private.