A woman brought an allegation against Talsara Congress MlA Prafulla Majhi of misbehaving with her and threatening to kill her over a land dispute.
The Sadar police have registered a case against Majhi. On the counter complaint by Majhi, the police have also registered a case against the woman. An investigation was on.
According to the FIR by the woman, MlA Majhi had purchased 1.3 acre land from one Dalimba Naik of Katingdih in Sundargarh by giving an amount of Rs 2.65 lakh during the year 2014. He had again purchased some land from Naik during the year 2016 but the MlA allegedly had not paid. Yet, cunningly, he had got the patta prepared in his wife’s name.
On Monday, Naik’s daughter Binati and others were cultivating the farm land, when MlA Majhi and his five associates arrived and dragged Binati They threatened them to vacate the land or else they would be killed. Binati later lodged the FIR.
On the other hand, Majhi filed a counter complaint and refuted the allegation. He maintained that his wife is the owner of the land. When his associates requested the woman to vacate the land, Binati used abusive language against them, he mentioned in his FIR.
SDPO Prasant Mohanty and Sadar IIC Indrajit Behera, besides tehsil staff, visited the disputed land.