Quietly, Baba Ramdev's Patanjali group has crept into Aravalli hills

The yoga guru's companies and associates, bypassing restrictions, have discreetly purchased a large tract of forested, hilly common land in a village in Faridabad, Haryana

This is the first of a three-part series on land purchase by the Patanjali group and its associates in Faridabad's Kot village in Haryana.

The Patanjali group, through companies controlled by Acharya Balkrishna, and some of their closely-associated land dealers, has picked up more than 400 acres of forested common lands in the Aravalli hills of Faridabad, Haryana. It has done so, mostly over 2014-16, by circumventing restrictions put in place on sale of such common lands in Kot village, under more than 300 power-of-attorney agreements. Such agreements for purchase of land are banned in Delhi.
 
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