Sarua land scam: Encroachment eviction drive begins
Published By : Sourabha Parida | October 15, 2020 8:00 AM
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Bhubaneswar, Oct 15: The Khordha district administration this morning began an eviction drive in Sarua in presence of local tehsildar and police over alleged land grabbing of the villagers by a news channel owner and employees. On October 1, an investigation was launched at administrative level after hundreds of people of Sarua, Jayamangal and Goudaput villages had held demonstration over land grabbing in the area by OTV recently. The villagers on September 26 had gheraoed the Khordha Collectorate and sought interference of the district administration in the matter to make the area free from encroachment. They had alleged that OTV Managing Director Jagi Mangat Panda and other OTV employees had purchased land in the area alluring the villagers few years back. Later, they constructed buildings, boundary, pond and road grabbing the adjoining farmland of the villagers. They have encroached acres of land of the villagers who find it difficult to go to their farmland for cultivation and threatening us with dire consequences, the protesting villagers had alleged.
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