New Delhi/Dehradun: His agriculture land was notified as forest land. His battle ended this month, when an environment ministry committee vested the land back to him. The forest department was not willing to listen to him and declared his land as reserve forest under the law turning him into an encroacher on his own land. That was beginning of a long ordeal in which he was arrested in 1988 on a complaint by the forest department. Sharma got his land back after the environment ministry’s Forest Advisory Committee (FAC) earlier this month decided to de-notify the 2.27 hectares of land as forest land.

Source: Hindustan Times March 28, 2017 15:00 UTC