IAF Accuses Maha Housing Body of Land Encroachment
The Indian Air Force (IAF) has accused the Maharashtra state housing board of grabbing 49,000 sq meters of defence land in suburban Santa Cruz area, reported PTI.
It claims that property records were manipulated by the Maharashtra Housing Area Development Authority (MHADA) to take over the land at the Rifle Range in Golibar area, said report.
The IAF officials said that they also wrote a letter to the MHADA and asked it to clear the encroachments and vacate the land, report said.
According to IAF, six buildings were constructed on the grabbed land under the slum rehabilitation scheme.
It may be mentioned that the land is located close to an IAF installation.
The Cotton Green-based 411 Air Force station has claimed that the land was part of 2.49 lakh sq metres of military land, which had been in its possession since May 8, 1964.
