Congress leader Girish Chodankar accuses a senior Goa minister of orchestrating a massive land conversion scam involving bribes to remove properties from private forest classifications.
Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel has taken a significant step to accelerate the approval process for land conversion proposals, from land cultivation to agricultural and agricultural to non-agricultural purposes, at the district and state levels for bona fide purchasers.
A case under relevant sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act was registered against two district collectors of Dudu, Rajasthan, for demanding a bribe of Rs 25 lakh in lieu of changing land-use pattern.