Continuing the drive against land grabbers, the PM Palem police arrested five persons on Friday.
All the accused are said to be the main culprits in cases of land grabbing being reported in the Madhurawada region. Two of them have rowdy sheet against them.
The accused are P. Ramgopal Reddy, Mallikanti Malyadri, Bora Suriramu alias Surireddy, Ravada Ramakrishna alias Velama Krishna, and Kopparla Nagavarma.
Mallikanti Malyadri and Velama Krishna are proclaimed rowdy-sheeters.
Addressing the media, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Law and Order) C.M. Trivikram Varma said that the police would either invoke the PD Act against the land grabbers or extern them from the city.
The DCP said that P.L.N. Raju, who owned over 350 acres of land in the Madhurawada region, had adopted his brother’s son P.L.N. Raju as he did not have any children.
Later, the adopted son distributed the land among his brothers and sold them before 1985 in view of the Land Ceiling Act.
R. Sambasiva Rao purchased about 1.3 acres from that chunk during that period in Survey No.2 in Kommadi, which today is a prime locality. Later, he divided the land into 15 plots and sold nine of them and retained six in his wife’s name.
The accused have been eyeing the lands of Sambasiva Rao since long.
Basing on a complaint by Sambasiva Rao earlier, Malyadri was arrested.
But, after the death of Sambasiva Rao in 2012, the accused had become active.
Mr. Trivikram Varma said that Malyadri had gone to such an extent that he not only forged the land documents but also forged the GVMC documents to build a 40-apartment gated community on 1,600 square yards of grabbed land.
“We have identified about 13 notorious land grabbers and arrested five of them,” the DCP said.
They are key accused in cases being reported from Madhurawada region
