Kendrapara: While the country is mourning the martyrs’ of the Pulwama terror attack, here an ITBP trooper is fighting babus and political interference to get justice for his family for the last two years.
Bhajaman Swain, a trooper of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) posted in Allahabad, failed to get justice for his family although he knocked on the doors of everyone from the Collector to the PMO.
Bhajaman, a resident of Gopalpur, is unable to concentrate on his job and is undergoing immense mental agony due to a land dispute in his village.
Bhajaman’s relatives Bhimasen Swain and Banamali Swain grabbed the ancestral property of his father. As a result, his father, Harmohan Swain, is staying with his family on government land for 40 years.
Harmohan constructed an IAY house on the said land, and has been staying there with his wife, younger son, his wife and two children.
But the two relatives who grabbed his father’s ancestral property managed to secure Record of Rights to the government land in which Bhajaman’s family has been staying by bribing officials and furnishing fake documents.
The two relatives of Bhajaman are aggressive, have political patronage and are harassing his family.
“The two relatives threatened to kill my old parents. My family has been living in fear for two years. My family approached the Mahakalapara police several times, but the police did not accept our complaint,” said Bhajaman.
“The tehsildar refused to provide the Record of Rights in the name of my father as it was government land although he had been staying there for 40 years, and had also constructed an IAY house on the land. How can its title deed be given to our relatives? Is the law only for those who have money and muscle power,” asked the ITBP trooper.
Bhajaman said he met the Mahakalapara tehsildar, but the official said the inquiry had revealed that his two relatives had been staying on the government land, and so the Record of Rights was given to them.
The ITBP trooper filed a complaint to the Collector, the SP, the DGP, the CMO and the PMO to get the Record of Rights of the government land in the name of his father and to take action against the relatives.
Although the then Collector had directed the tehsildar and the IIC of Mahakalapara to take action and give justice to the ITBP trooper’s family in the land dispute case, no action was taken.
Meanwhile, Bhajaman’s family has been moving from pillar to post to get the Record of Rights.
He said due to pressure from politicians, the tehsildar and the IIC have been denying justice to his family.
“I and my old father personally met the Collector several times in the last few months and also produced the letters of the PMO, the Additional Secretary (Home), the Director of Public Grievances and the ex-officio Special Secretary in vain,” Bhajaman said.
“For two years we have been moving from pillar to post to get justice, but the administration has failed to help us. If the administration does not take action against the relatives and provide the Record of Rights in my father’s name, then our family will stage a dharna in front of the Collector’s office,” the ITBP soldier said.
Collector Dasarathi Satapathy said he would take steps immediately to solve the land dispute.
PNN