VISAKHAPATNAM: Cops arrested four persons accused of encroaching onto government land at Narava area in Pendurthi mandal and attacking revenue staff. Police have launched a manhunt for Doddi Kiran, the prime accused.
It will be recalled that Kiran and around 20 of his supporters attacked the revenue inspector and village revenue officer while the revenue staff were removing a wall constructed on government land in Narava on Thursday.
District collector A Mallikharjuna in a letter instructed city police commissioner Manish Kumar Sinha to take stringent action against the land grabbers. Pendurthi police arrested four persons and are now searching for Doddi Kiran, who had recently contested the elections for the post of ward corporator, and his driver Pavan.
Police sources said Kiran purchased 1.6 acres of land belonging to former Visakha West MLA Malla Vijaya Prasad. He constructed a boundary wall by encroaching on another 60 cents of Gedda Poramboke land that belongs to the government.
