When Gangadhar and Purendra went to the Revenue Inspector’s office in Harichandanpur to deposit the land rent, they were surprised to know that their ancestral land was already transferred in the name of Bimala Mahanta, someone they never knew.
It was in March that they immediately rushed to the Harichandanpur tehsil office and lodged a complaint with the Tehsildar.
According to official sources, the 107 decimals of land in Khata 44 was in the name of late Gobardhan Mahanta, son of Chaitanya Mahanta of village Raidiha, Harichandanpur RI circle.
Gobardhan has two sons Mahendra and Krushna. Gangadhar, son of Mahendra and Purendra, son of Krushna were cultivating the land by succession. In the meantime, Bimala Mahanta of village Bhagamunda applied for transfer of the land in Khata 44 claiming to be only legal heir of late Gobordhan Mahanta. But Bimal happens to be the daughter in law of another late Gobordhan’s son of Rupa Mahanta of village Bhagamunda.
With the help of revenue officials, she managed to get a legal heir certificate of late Gobordhan of village Raidiha and got his property transferred in her name.
“We are a victim of a conspiracy; otherwise how could a stranger transfer our ancestral property in her name without proper field verification,” alleged Gangadhar Mahanta, a true legal heir. “We will surely take action against the culprits after an inquiry,” Tehsildar Harichandanpur Shanti Sudha Patra said after four months of receiving the complaint.