Thugs threaten the Kalyankars, who had said they would immolate themselves on Independence Day, over a land dispute
Thugs threaten the Kalyankars, who had said they would immolate themselves on Independence Day, over a land disputeu00a0
Chandrakant Kalyankar, the son of freedom fighter Tukaram Kalyankar, was threatened by two unidentified men in Vangni on Wednesday, barely a day after the Ambernath police dissuaded his family members and him from attempting suicide over a land dispute.
Kalyankar (52), older brother Vinayak (59) and sister-in-law Manda (54) threatened to immolate themselves at Mantralaya on August 15, after builders Gulabrao Karanjule Patil and Vinod Navre unlawfully appropriated the 6,534 sq ft plot of land at Ambernath, which they live and farm on. ('64 years on, whose land is it anyway', Sunday MiD DAY, August 14, 2011) Kalyankar said that this was not the first time that his family has received threats.
"I was at Wangni when two men on a bike approached me and said, 'Your family wishes to immolate itself, we will kill you now. Vacate the place where you are living.' I approached the Vangni police station, and the policemen there told me to go to the Badlapur rural police station. The senior police official there noted down the non-cognisable offence but claimed that nothing could be done, as I couldn't recognise the men who threatened me," Kalyankar said.
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