Hyderabad, May 27 -- BRS legislature party deputy leader T Harish Rao on Tuesday alleged that nearly 170 acres of government land worth around Rs 1,000 crore had been illegally encroached upon at Peddashapur village in Shamshabad mandal.

Addressing a press conference at Bharat Rashtra Samithi headquarters, Telangana Bhavan, Harish Rao claimed that the land falling between Survey Nos. 173 and 183 were officially identified as government land in affidavits submitted to the High Court, but were later shown as belonging to private individuals.

He questioned how a local tahsildar could assign the same land to private persons when the Revenue Divisional Officer (RDO) had already informed the High Court through an affidavit that it was governm...