Ghaziabad June 27 (IANS) Nine men who grabbed other people s land were on Tuesday booked here under the Gangster Act.
On the strength of a police report Ghaziabad District Magistrate Ministhy S. Nair ordered the application of the Gangster Act against the land grabbers.
Eight of them were identified as Mohit Yadav Sandeep Jaiswal Prathvi Singh Jitendra Gopal Vikas Vicky and Gajendra. They were earlier arrested when the Samajwadi Party ruled Uttar Pradesh.
In March 2016 these men equipped with two bulldozers attempted to grab some land situated in Budh Vihar in Ghaziabad.
This is the effective preventive measure to lock up the land grabbers in jail so that law and order is maintained in the state Superintendent of Police Akash Tomar.
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Nine land grabbers booked under Gangster Act
