{"id":337,"date":"2011-04-29T13:59:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T13:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chtnews.com\/english\/?p=337"},"modified":"2023-01-29T11:32:34","modified_gmt":"2023-01-29T11:32:34","slug":"plot-to-capture-land-in-mahalchari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chtnews.com\/english\/2011\/04\/29\/plot-to-capture-land-in-mahalchari\/","title":{"rendered":"Plot to capture land in Mahalchari !"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>chtnews.com<\/strong><br \/>\nApril 29, 2011<\/p>\n<p><strong>THE army is alleged to be plotting to capture approximately 25 acres of land belonging to Jumma people in Noapara under Tholipara Mouza in Mahalchari.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sources said repeated visits to the area by a group of army personnel from Mahalchari zone on Thursday and Friday raised concerns among the Jumma villagers that the army might be eying to grab their lands.<\/p>\n<p>The army was accompanied by a group of settlers during the visits, the sources added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe fear that the settlers may come to capture our land anytime.\u201d a villager told chtnews.com on condition of anonymity.<a name=\"more\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe army came yesterday along with some Bengali settlers and had had a look at the area.\u201d he said and added, \u201cToday they came twice \u2013 at 9am and at 3pm\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, some 21 Jumma (Marma) families live near the land the settlers are allegedly eying to capture.<\/p>\n<p>These families have been using that land for growing vegetables and for other purposes for the last six decades.<\/p>\n<p>However, in 1985 and 1986, the government made attempts to settle some Bengali settler families on that piece of land. But as the Jummas intensified their protest the attempt ultimately failed.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, the settlers have been claiming the land to be their own, Kala Chand Chowdhury, headman of Tholipara, said.<\/p>\n<p>The Jumma villagers fear that if the settlers make renewed attempts now to capture the land, they would have no other alternatives than to fight back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are driven to the wall; so it is a do or die battle for us.\u201d a Jumma villager said.<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>News No. 110\/2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>chtnews.com April 29, 2011 THE army is alleged to be plotting to capture approximately 25 acres of land belonging to Jumma people in Noapara under Tholipara Mouza in Mahalchari. 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