BETTIAH, April 22 -- The manager of Bettiah Raj has written to the Bettiah Circle Officer (CO), flagging encroachments on the Raj properties in the Vishwamitra market area and seeking administrative action to remove encroachers.

In a letter to the circle officer (CO), Anil Kumar Sinha, the manager, has pointed that a vast tract of land under Khasra number 5,238 in Vishwamitra market area belongs to the Bettiah Raj where 202 encroachers have built buildings and commercial establishments.

"Therefore, you are requested to take initiative to remove the encroachment and free the Bettiah Raj land," the letter, undersigned by Sinha, reads. The development came barely a few days after the removal of 55 encroachers near Checkpost area on Bettiah...