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NOIDA/GHAZIABAD: The Allahabad high court has ordered shifting of all religious structures that were constructed on public land after January 1, 2011, and encroach on roads, pathways, lanes and side roads. The encroachments on Shakti Khand’s green belt had come up only in the past five years.Such structures are also encroaching green belts in Seva Nagar, Meerut Road, Kavi Nagar and Bulandshahr industrial area. A curved road has been built abutting the temple.“In 2016, the villagers attacked me with an intention to take ownership of the land so that they could take compensation claim on the green belt. I had to leave the temple for some time due to injuries. We wrote to chief minister Yogi Aditya Nath who directed the authorities to reinstate us at the temple,” he said.The Atta Peer — a religious memorial built in June 1986 by Hukum Singh in memory of his son Rambal Singh — has not been shifted despite takeover of private land by Noida Authority..