Bhoodan lands row: Five cases against 13 persons booked for cheating people

Khammam police registered cases against 13 persons for illegally collecting money from poor families by promising housing plots on Bhoodan lands in Velugumatla. Four accused have been arrested, and police said the money would be recovered and returned

Khammam: Cases have been registered against 13 persons for illegally collecting money for allotting government lands to poor people on Bhoodan lands at Velugumatla in Khammam urban mandal.

Announcing this here on Saturday, Commissioner of Police Sunil Dutt said the cases were filed based on complaints from several affected families. Four of the accused – Talluri Krishna, Mankidi Lingaraju, Mudiga Ramulu and Kalthi Errababu – have already been arrested, he said, adding that the police would stand by the affected families and that the money collected from them would be recovered from the accused and returned to the families.

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Cases with crime numbers 99/2026, 101/2026, 102/2026, 103/2026 and 104/2026 were registered under Section 318(4) (cheating), read with 3(5) of BNS, at Khanapur Haveli police station. The accused formed a gang claiming that they were members of the OPDR Bhoodan Committee. They collected lakhs of rupees from families, saying that they would be given housing plots on Bhoodan lands. Later, they illegally occupied Bhoodan, government, and private patta lands and built sheds. As many as 15 cases were registered against the gang in the past. The investigation was going on, and those who were cheated by the gang should file complaints with the police, the CP added.