Revenue team on Friday retrieved 237 kanal of state land worth crores of rupees, which was illegally encroached by some influential people in tehsil Dansal. Under the supervision of DC Jammu, a team of revenue officials, headed by Tehsildar Dansal, Dhruv Gupta, retrieved the state land from encroachers in villages Kah, Bhouta, Slay and Kanayala in tehsil Dansal. The team comprised of Naib Tehsildar, Girdawars and Patwaris. A police force of around 80 male policemen and 30 females headed by SHO Jhajjer Kotli Rajesh Khajuria accompanied the revenue team. The state land physically retrieved in village Bhouta comprises 14 kanals 5 marla under Khasra number 393, 11 marla under Khasra number 578, 8 marlas under Khasra number 579 and 123 kanal, 10 marlas under Khasra number 294 in village Kanyala. Similarly in village Kah, retrieved state land include 26 kanals, 2 marla under Khasra number 370, 36 kanal, 16 marla under Khasra number 374, 14 marla under Khasra number 373 while in village Slay, 34 kanals, 14 marla state land under Khasra number 226 was retrieved. Boards of state land indicating all details of land were also fixed at all the locations from where encroachers have been evicted. The notable influential encroacher was Shamsher Singh Baloria, BJP Block President Dansal who had encroached 36 kanal 16 marlas state land under Khasra number 374 in village Kah,14 marla house under Khasra number 373 in village Kah and 8 marla under Khasra number 579 (school building) in village Bhouta.
