Three persons were arrested over forest land grabbing at Bandhgora under Chas block of Bokaro district.
The arrested were identified as Mahendra Rajak a resident of Sector 3, Jaidev Manjhi and Sahadeo Sekh, informed Santosh Kumar Sinha, Ranger of district forest department.
“On a tip-off, we have conducted a raid at the location and arrested three of them while four others got success in escaping. They were illegally doing construction on forest land, said Sinha.
“They were claiming that the land belongs to them but when we have asked them to present papers and NOC certificate by the forest, they failed to do so,” he added.
Forest land grabbing is on rising at Bokaro; thousands of acres of forest land were captured and sold by the land grabbers during the past days.