Farmers’ activist group Samyukta Horata Karnataka on Monday questioned a decision of the state government to set a three-month deadline for farmers in Bengaluru’s Devanahalli region to sell their land to the state Industrial Area Development Board.

The move comes in the wake of a government order issued earlier in the day to return 1,777 acres of land , acquired for Phase-II of the Aerospace Park in Devanahalli, back to the farmers following protests.

“Once the notification issued for the land acquisition process for a specific purpose is cancelled, no land acquisition process can be started without issuing a new notification for a new purpose. The very statement that land should be given within three months without any new notification is illegal,” Samyukta Horata leaders said in a

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