New system to tackle land disputes’

The State Government has decided to evolve a fool proof mechanism to check the authenticity of conflicting claims on lands made by different parties.

In this direction, the Government was contemplating to entrust a section of staff in each police station the responsibility of investigations into land disputes besides attaching one lawyer each to three police stations to address the legal issues.

“The increasing number of fake documents and general power of attorney letters are making it difficult to ascertain the genuineness of the claimants,” Home Minister K. Jana Reddy said.

Addressing a press conference here on Tuesday, he admitted that the department was faced with constraints on the staff side to tackle land disputes, mostly civil in nature. But, the department had succeeded in identifying 110 gangs involved in land grabbing under the jurisdiction of Cyberabad police commissionerate. Stringent action was being launched whenever such instances were coming to light. To a question on remission of sentence to prisoners on January 26, he said though the arguments were completed in the Supreme Court, the court had not yet announced the date when the judgment would be delivered.

To another query, he said he did not receive any representation from TDP president for allotment of a new bullet-proof car.