Authorities have removed 279 huts which encroached upon a forest land in Maharashtra`s <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/search/thane-all" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">Thane</a> district, an official said on Thursday.
Nearly three hectares of the encroached land in <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/mumbai/mumbai-crime-news/article/mumbai-crime-two-brothers-held-for-killing-man-at-birthday-party-in-mumbra-23279868" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">Mumbra</a> area was freed after the mega operation carried out on Wednesday by the forest, police and revenue officials, Deputy Conservator of Forest Santosh Sasthe told PTI.
There was some resistance from the occupants of the huts, but the police ensured removal of the encroachments, he said.
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More than 100 personnel from the forest, police and other departments and earth-movers were engaged in the anti-encroachment drive, he said.
To a question, the official said there was no need to give a notice for the removal of huts that come up on the forest land.
"But, in case of a pucca construction, we follow the due procedure of issuing a notice and removing the encroachment," he said.
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There was some resistance from the occupants of the huts, but the police ensured removal of the encroachments, he said

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