Minister blows whistle for land sharks- police nexus, Send SOS to Chief minister

SAGAR SURAJ

MOTIHARI : One of the senior ministers of Nitish Kumar cabinet and five times BJP MLA from Motihari assembly seat in Bihar is inklinging helplessness from ever strengthening dominance of land mafias and alleged police-land mafia nexus in the district.

Sending a SOS to chief minister of Bihar, Pramod Kumar, minister for cane industry and law department on Saturday said that the district has witnessed a number of incidents of land related violence in which police-mafia nexus was clearly surfaced.

Demanding state high ups’ interventions and a comprehensive  investigation in these incidents, which the minister claims is related to land capturing being occurred in the district, he said.   

He said dominance of land mafias having hand in gloves with local police and senior police officers turned out to be bad omen for the civic body. The day by day incidents led to a number of violent clash leading  deaths and  injuries as well in many cases, he said.

 Latest among a piece of land worth in crores -located close to town police station was  attempted to grab on Thursday by a group of over 200 grabbers. The attempt however was  averted after director general of police (DGP) of Bihar intervened the matter forcing the local police to rush on the spot resulting in flees of all the anti-socials elements.

Ignoring victims’ application of extortion money for which they are being intimidated from mafias, police framed victims instead  ‘in allegely a false and concocted case” only to help land sharks, minister letters reads.

 “ The land in question has long litigations between two parties and the high court had already imposed injunctions on the land. Both the parties are at the verse of compromise, when a third party is forcibly trying to grab this land and the way police act and behave in this matter the police-mafis nexus unfolds”, he said .

As motihari nagar parishad transformed in to Nagar Nigam and Mahatma Gandhi central university was opened up  with all round development in the area, the land prices are skyrocketing and land mafias are spending flawless money to woo officials in their favour, minister said adding that they are using forced document to create litigations and in the most of the cases, actual owners have to surrender before land sharks.

Keeping in mind the ever growing land related disputes in the state, he said that the state government has set hierarchical level accountability to address the problem right from SHOs, COs to SP and DM. If the dispute is pending before court the court order has to be properly respected, but these guidelines are not properly followed in our segment, he said.

Notably, on Thursday a group of land traders tried to erect boundary wall forcibly on nine katha land –part of twenty eight kathas located in front of a hotel- close to town police station despite the injunctions claimed to be imposed on the land by high court. Victime Kishore Mishra also apprised the matter through a letter to prime minister and CM and DGP in Bihar alleging that  Manoj Gautam and Ashok Mishra along with a group of land Mafia is trying to grab his land enjoying police support.  ” District is experiencing the worst days, realtors rule the roost, ” said a senior civil advocate Rajeev Shankar Verma.