Korba. The high morale of land mafia in the district can be gauged from the fact that when a land owner went to see the land under his possession, he was not only taken hostage, but an attempt was made to blackmail him by assaulting him. . Manikpur police have arrested 8 people in the case of assault and blackmail by taking them hostage and sent them to jail.
It is being told that the victim Kanhaiya Lal Prasad’s land lies behind the petrol pump operated on Budhwari Bypass Marg Kuambhatta, on which the family of Anjora Bai, who lives there, asserts its rights. This land dispute is many years old and is pending in the court. Leaving the disputed land, KL Prasad had come to mark with lime for the necessary construction work on his other non-disputed land, when Anjora Bai’s family attacked with other weapons including sticks and shovels while arguing. An attempt was also made to burn the land owner hostage by pouring petrol on him, but the people present foiled it.
