A 98-year-old veteran has been running from pillar to post for 50 years to get possession of land he has fully paid for. He asks, in a front page report in this paper, whether every old person should come to Mantralaya to commit suicide in order to get justice. This former Indian army soldier from Satara been struggling for 54 years to get a piece of land from the government that he has already paid for.

Chandrashekar Jangam is the protagonist of this shameful story. He had fought for India in the 1962 war against China and in 1965 against Pakistan. He retired as Subedar in 1971. In 1964, he applied for land in Satara's Raviwar Peth under a Government Resolution that allowed soldiers to buy land from the state. A 15.5-gunta plot was allotted to him, for which he paid Rs 3,547 in full.