State scan: Land mafia runs for cover

MADHYA PRADESH has never seen such a sustained and coordinated crackdown on organised, white collar crime since the state came into being in 1956. Of course, there have been sporadic and selective campaigns against mafias, particularly land-grabbers, under previous governments but they evoked more cynicism than trust in the state’s people.

Razing down of the illegal Raj Tower in Indore under Digvijay Singh’s rule or Minal Residency of Bhopal under the Shivraj Singh government may have earned public encomium for the previous chief ministers but the actions proved a flash in the pan...

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