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- The Karnataka government has formed an 11-member Special Investigation Team, led by senior IAS officer Amlan Aditya Biswas, to investigate allegations that the Art of Living Foundation and linked entities encroached on more than 290 acres of government land in Bengaluru South taluk.
- The SIT follows an October 2025 survey, ordered by the high court after a 2023 public interest litigation, which prima facie found that the foundation's compound wall enclosed about 291 acres although only 60 acres had been leased, with one 41-acre lease expiring in 2015 without renewal.
- The panel must verify land records and lease deeds, detect forged documents, conduct fresh surveys using satellite imagery, hear stakeholders, and submit findings within three months.
- The foundation did not respond to Hindustan Times' request for comment.
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- SIT findings due within three months of the order
- Foundation's response to the allegations, which it had not yet given
- Further high court directions, as the probe stems from its September 2025 order in the 2023 PIL
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