The Rajnagar police registered a case against 11 persons for constructing a house by encroaching a Government land at Bagapatia based- Satabhaya resettlement colony, reserved for rehabilitating sea erosion prone Satabhaya people, informed Rajnagar police station IIC Tapan Kumar Nayak.
According to Nayak, Rajnagar Tehsildar Bholanath Sethy, acting on the direction of the district Collector, lodged the FIR. The State Government has rehabilitated 571 families of sea erosion prone Satabhaya by setting up a resettlement colony at Bagapatia. Some lands have been reserved for the people of Satabhaya, who were left out from the project.
But for last 10 days, several persons forcibly encroaching the land have started house construction work. As a result, when the Satabhaya Rehabilitation Committee opposed them, the encroachers allegedly started terrorising the committee members. Consequently, the Committee members brought the alleged matter to the notice of the Rajnagar Tehsildar and the district Collector of Kendrapada along with filing a petition with the Special Relief Commissioner.
Later, the Tehsildar of Rajnagar directed the local Revenue Inspector to probe the case. And when the encroachers were asked to stop construction, they did not pay any heed. As a result, the district Collector directed the Rajnagar Tehsildar to take legal action against the encroachers.
The land encroachment case has been registered against Bijaylaxmi Lenka, Akhaya Kumar Behera,Ramakant Rout, Gokulananda Parida, Pramod Parida, Binod Panda, Sridhar Sahani, Baradakanta Mallick, Akhaya Kumar Mallick, Santosh Kumar Mallick and Gagan Mallick.