Army officer booked for damaging crop with help of soldiers

An Army officer has been booked for allegedly damaging crop on a disputed agricultural land in his village in Maharashtra with the help of armed jawans, police said Monday.

A case was registered at the Khed police station after a complaint by a woman, who said the officer, a Colonel in the Army, damaged crop on the land located in Khed taluka of Pune district, police said.

A police officer said the Colonel's brother and Sunil Bharne, a relative of the complainant, are fighting over the ownership of the land in Gulani village, and the matter is pending before the sub-divisional magistrate, Khed.

Bharne, whose name is on the 7/12 extract of the land, had sowed soybean in the field.

"On June 22, the Colonel, posted at Hyderabad, took 30 to 40 armed jawans in uniform - who came in four Army trucks - to the disputed land, and in their presence, ploughed the land using a tractor and damaged the crop," the police officer said quoting the complaint.

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