land grab


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land grab

n.
An aggressive taking of land, especially by military force, in order to expand territorial holdings or broaden power: "The Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889 was ... the first of several Oklahoma land grabs that sealed the fate of the American Indian" (Robert Day).
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Jayalalithaa denied DMK President M.Karunanidhi's charge that she had unleashed "vendetta politics" against his partymen in the form of land grab cases and said police were acting on "genuine complaints filed by persons with no political backing."
The AIADMK government had announced setting up special cells in police department to deal with land grab cases, soon after it came to power after the April 13 polls.
Mumbai, Jan 16 ( ANI ): The Ministry of Corporate Affairs has been informed by the Serious Fraud Investigating Office (SFIO) that a Rs.700 crore land grab case has been filed against self-styled godman Asaram Bapu in Madhya Pradesh.
Under attack from the AIADMK government, which is booking cases against several DMK men for alleged land grab across the state, DMK president M Karunanidhi on Saturday instructed the party's legal wing to "rush to the defence of party members facing police excesses in this undemocratic regime".
Mr Afridi said that it had come to his notice that the gangsters had targeted poor people for land grab.
Mumbai, Feb 22 (ANI): The Bombay High Court on Tuesday handed over the investigation into the Pune land grab scam case to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
NO land grab takes place without the collusion of the bureaucracy and the backing of powerful lobbies.
The officials, who have been terminated from service, included Nazima Mushtaq, SI Haq Nawaz and constable Shaukat Shah after their involvement in land grab plan was proved as their response to the dispute was neither timely nor professional.
Several complaints have also been lodged against the controversial Rampur lawmaker for alleged land grab to build the varsity.
The director of the Natural Resource and Wildlife Preservation Organisation (NRWPO) requested the Ministry of Environment on Tuesday order an investigation into an alleged land grab in Phnom Oral Wildlife Sanctuary in Oral district's Trapaing Chor commune in Kampong Speu province.
And though Donald Trump may have been a New York real estate mogul before entering the Oval Office, even he will have a difficult time justifying this shameless land grab in front of the international community.
This bizarre fact was revealed in course of probing the Lalita Niwas land grab by land mafia in collusion with top politicians and land revenue officials.