In Jharkhand, a controversy on the Royal ‘Ratu’ land, on a contract since the 1960s. Bharat News

In Jharkhand, a controversy on the Royal 'Ratu' land, on a contract since the 1960s. Bharat News

For the last 10 days, Jatru Munda has nursed her thighs, stomachs and pill wounds on her thighs, stomach and back in the tribal village of Ranchi. Allegedly, on June 3, there was a conflict with the police on the land dispute, painful, and Munda is being treated with a local quack after Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences, Ranchi, sent him back home without removing the bullet.

26 -year -old Munda told the Indian Express, “I was attending a gram sabha meeting, when an old land was held to settle the dispute when police firing started.

Jatra Munda is one of the two people, who were allegedly injured when the police opened fire on June 3 at a meeting of Munda and Oraon tribes. The meeting was called to settle an old land dispute of 56 acres of agricultural land, which has been handed over by the local people’s claims by the Ratu Dynasty of Saukhan.

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The land dispute for the celebration for years came on one head on June 3, when one officer and two village residents – Jatru – were injured in alleged confrontation.

While the village residents claim that the police action was “unsafe”, the police claim that they were forced to fire guns after the mob gathered in the meeting and became violent and attacked the police using “armed with bows, arrows, swords and traditional weapons”.

An officer, Santosh Kumar Yadav, in -charge at the police station in Lapung, was injured in the incident.

“No bullet was fired. Only the bullet guns were used and that too when one of our officers was being attacked with a sword. A mob gathered, and the situation was spiral. When the officer was retreated, some people hit him with sticks, and still, the village was being set on fire. The name of a cedar 50 village residents.

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Another meeting was held in the village on 15 June.

Controversy

The dispute belongs to the land which is allegedly belonging to a branch of the Nagavanshi dynasty of Chota Nagpur landlord property. An ancient dynasty that takes its roots back in the first century AD, there are many branches of the dynasty, and although it mainly ruled the Chhota Nagpur plateau area in Jharkhand of the present time, its impact also expanded to the areas of present Odisha and Chhattisgarh. The Zamindar system in Jharkhand was abolished under the Bihar Land Reforms Act, 1950.

According to the official documents accessed by the Indian Express, about 56 acres and 66 lands were destroyed, the then king gifted his daughter -in -law Durgavati Devi.

After the abolition of the zamindarry system, Durgavati decided to sell the land to Adivasis. The papers further state that the land was being sold to some tribal families because their children, and income from these sales were to be used for their education and other necessary needs.

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Vaibhav Shahdev, the grand nephew of Murgavati, is the current contender of this land.

Local people said that when the land assigned to Adivasis was handed over, it was on the condition that some parts of the agricultural produce should be given to the royal family, a local ‘Brahmin’ – or with overseer – was appointed to monitor land and transactions. But the locals now claim that the practice continues decades later.

As a claim of Anil Munda (tribal priest) Anil Munda (tribal priest) Anil Munda, we are related to Bhoomi Oren and Mundas tribes, we continue to produce rice for Raja Babu and Brahil (intermediary), “

The FIR filed after the June 3 incident claims that the meeting was called.

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Police said that those who attended the meeting needed the current contender of the land Vaibhav Shahdeo to attend the meeting. “In -charge Santosh Kumar Yadav at the police station in Lapung asked Sahdev not to come. Instead, he decided to go to mediated the dispute without informing the senior officials and went to the village.”

The FIR said the meeting became violent when a group of residents of the village attacked Yadav and injured him on the head. “Equipped with crowds, bows, arrows, swords and traditional weapons, tried to snatch police rifles, and an attacker fired a round from a desi chopped (country-made gun). In response, a constable shot a shot from a SLR (self-loading rifle) in the air.”

On contact, DSP Ashok Ram said that the residents of the village were incited by a person involved in Maoist activities.

On their behalf, the erstwhile Royals claimed that they were called to attend a meeting to discuss the land dispute, but the police in -charge recommended them that they recommend not “due to” possible laws and order issues “.

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Vaibhav Lal Shahdeo’s younger brother, 31, 31, Gopalnath Shahdev said that his family did not know that the document that the local residents had cited the family were claiming according to the tradition, “Women were not allowed to go to court, let a document alone to execute a document”.

He also claimed that the land became the subject of dispute, “only this year he said that he had refused, allegedly under the influence of extremists, the cause of loss of several million”.

Meanwhile, Jatru Munda, who was injured in the jerk, said that when he was first taken to a local hospital and eventually refers to RIMS. “While I reached the hospital in the afternoon, with three, Ranchi police arrested us, shouting: ‘Naxalites are here’. They kept us for seven days without any treatment,” he said he was sent home on June 10.

RIMS spokesman Rajiv Ranjan said, “The patient was hurt in a middle-thigh and was advised that surgery was not immediately necessary. Once the wound … Once started treatment, surgery can be considered. Now operations can be considered more muscle damage.” “After the treatment of the skin begins and the injected antibiotics were stopped, they were discharged with advice to return to surgery”.

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