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Monday, August 31, 2009

Goala lobby plunges into Indragarh Zirat case

SILCHAR, Aug 31: Dinesh Prasad Goala’s tea tribe lobby has also joined in the race for grabbing the controversial land of Indragarh grant. Sources said Urban Development Minister Goala’s close aide Sanatan Mishra led a delegation of tea labourers from the long-defunct Chencoorie TE to the Deputy Commissioner claiming that 152 tea tribe families who were residing there for the last 150 years were the actual and genuine owners of the Indragarh Grant land and that they had 2,280 bighas of land under their possession.

Mishra alleged that a group of land mafia had prepared a fabricated list of Zirath i.e. Standing crops, houses, wells and tanks etc and planned to siphon off an amount of Rs 300 crore. It is to be noted that two organizations namely the Indragarh Grant and Indragarh Block Mouja Residents Development Rights Forum as well as Barak Bandhu, a newly formed organization, had been in the fray with their respective claims. Indragarh Grant was the alleged brainchild of Samsulur Rahman Choudhury alias John, a close relative of Cachar ADC H A Laskar while the latter was led by controversial man Basulal Das and his wife and Indragarh GP president Gyanabala Das. Sources further said that Algapur MLA Rahul Roy had supreme control over the Das couple and Roy himself led a crowd from Indragarh area recently to the office of the Deputy Commissioner demanding scrapping of the previous list of Zirath and to prepare a new list incorporating the local and genuine residents. They alleged that Laskar and John had manipulated the entire list without verifying the land and thus deprived the local residents as names of people who had no actual claim over the land were included in the list. Sources hinted that both the warring groups were heading for a mutual understanding to grab a huge amount from the Defense Ministry but, Goala, sensing foul play has now fielded his own lobby with an eye to get their share. But this involvement, in reality, complicated the entire episode. THE SENTINEL

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