The Forest Department officials of Hassan have sealed the cottages of a resort built on deemed forest land at Mankanahalli in Yeslur range of Sakleshpur taluk.
The owners of the resort had encroached upon three acres and 17 juntas of deemed forest land in survey number 141 of Mankanahalli. A team of officers led by ACF C.N. Suresh sealed the cottages and took the land back to the custody of the department on June 30.
Sakleshpur, on the foothills of the Western Ghats, is known for resorts and homestays that attract hundreds of tourists during the weekend. S.M. Pandu of Nagasandara in Bengaluru, Sharanappa Patil of Raichur, and Puttaraju of Vijayanagar in Bengaluru had built the resort.
