KATHMANDU: The Ministry of Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation has begun an investigation into the involvement of government employee in the encroachment of public lands.

The Ministry banned the transaction of some 485 kittas of land in Baluwatar and the vicinity and began probe on the involvement of land mafia and government employees on illegal dealing of the public lands.

After this study, the Ministry would conduct further investigation on how the government lands were misused and encroached.