The Jharsuguda police have registered a case against three persons on the allegation of threatening a family and taking thumb impression of the family members on blank paper by coercion for preparing a document in favour of the accused to get rid of a land grabbing case on Monday.
The case has been registered against two persons of BTM Colony here and one of Thakurpara under the laikera police limits in the district. The police registered the case after Pintu Oram of Sarvena, Oramapada here lodged a complaint against the trio.
Oram said two persons came to his house on Monday morning and threatened all the family members with dire consequences if they resorted to agitation against the fraudulent registration of their land measuring more than 1.5 acres. Earlier, they had forced his father Bhagaban Oram to put thumb impression on blank papers by intoxicating him, he alleged.
He also said the trio had fraudulently managed to grab their landed property. When the matter of fraudulent registration of the land came to his notice, he took shelter of the Akhil Bharatiya Gondwana Yuba Gond Mahasabha and the Integrated Tribal Samaj. Since the land grabbing came to light, the trio is threatening his family. Jharsuguda police station IIC Khirasagar Naik said a case has been registered against the trio under SC&ST Atrocity Act Sections 3(1) and 3(2) and Sections of 451, 506 and 34 of Indian Penal Code and further investigation is on.