Properties built illegally were backdated so they could be saved by an amnesty applied to older illegal constructions. But Google Earth showed the scam.
Aactivists of an NGO, SEZ Hatao Sangharsh Samiti, are using pictures of land in Pen Taluka taken from Google Earth as a proof of it being fertile. The local officials had deemed the same land as infertile and had earmarked it for development of the 25,000