PATNA, Feb. 28 -- The Bihar government announced on Friday that the state government was prepared to constitute a high-level committee to investigate/scrutinise all the land related documents of alleged illegal occupation of settlement (Bandobasti) lands in Kishanganj.

Deputy chief minister Vijay Kumar Sinha said, "The state government is taking this matter seriously and is prepared to constitute a high-level committee to investigate." He was replying to the a non-official resolution submitted by Thakurganj MLA Gopal Kumar Agrawal in the assembly who raised the issue of the alleged illegal occupation of settlement lands in Kishanganj district's Dighalbank block by outsiders.

The MLA stated in the House that approximately 90 acres of lan...