From CT correspondent
BANTWAL: A complaint has been lodged in Bantwal rural police station against three persons including the Panemangalore Block Youth Congress President Steven D’Souza on the charges of damaging the pillars of the iron gate of the agricultural land belonging to a woman named Hilda Sequeira of Deradka in Manchi village, and then threatening the woman who objected to their action.
It is learnt Steven along with Herald D’Souza and Victor D’Souza, had forcibly entered Hilda’s land on Sunday when her husband Norbert Lobo had been to the church. The complainant has said that the loss due to the damage to the gate has been estimated at Rs 15,000. It has also been alleged that the trio had even damaged the fencing of the fields of the neighbourng Florine D’Souza.
Reports said that though a dispute between Steven and Hilda had earlier been settled in a compromise in the presence of the local circle inspector, an unhappy Steven resorted to forcible means recently.
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