PRAYAGRAJ: A five-decade old land dispute between two groups of different communities was resolved with mutual understanding in the presence of police and revenue department officials and villagers in Prayagraj district.
The land dispute between rival camps had even led to communal clashes last year when a PAC battalion had to be deployed for a month at Chandrabhan Ka Pura in Hathiman village and an FIR was registered under different sections of the IPC and 7 CLA Act.
The rival camps of Subhash Chandra Patel and Mohammad Shamim agreed to end the five decades old land dispute through mutual understanding on Monday evening and set an example of peace and harmony.
Trainee IPS officer and Station House Officer, Ghurpur, Chirag Jain told TOI, "The rival groups of Subhash Chandra Patel, Arun Kumar Patel, Tulsiram Patel, Kausal Patel, and Mohammad Shamim, Rajif Ali, Mohammad Safeeq, were at loggerheads over a land dispute for the past 50 years. They have solved their dispute amicably in the presence of police and revenue officials and villagers." The Patel family had possession of land belonging to the Muslims, while the latter had land owned by Patels in their control, he added.
The two groups amicably resolved to keep the land in their possession with them and since the land of Muslims was bigger in comparison, the Patel family has given them additional land to compensate for the loss, said Jain. Officials have recorded statements of both the groups after their long pending land dispute was settled.
