A mother, whose cultivation and plantation was mercilessly slashed down in Pathardharo, allegedly by the sordar has been asked to “keep the peace” and had to sign a bond whereby she would be fined Rs 50,000, if she breached the peace.
The incident dates to January 24, 2022. The Dorbar Shnong of Pathardaro has, in a dispute with Regina Marbaniang who lives there, torn up her crops, uprooted water pipes fixed to deliver drinking water to her residence under the Jal Jeevan Mission.
The FIR filed in April said that this was done to drive her away from her land by the sordar shnong, Opus Lapang and his supporters on the false pretext that she is “Not from Pathardharo.” She was even called a ‘refugee’ and threatened with bodily harm if she did not leave right away.
Following the FIR, the police investigated the case and took videos of the cut trees scattered on her fields and her cultivation destroyed, but the perpetrators where not reined in by the law.
“Instead of putting the case under the appropriate sections of the CrPc and the IPC, the police put the FIR enumerating criminal behaviour by village authorities under U/S107/145 CrPC, Bond to keep the peace and made her sign a bond in the court of the Executive Magistrate Ri Bhoi District, Nongpoh,” sources said.
Sources said while the sordar shnong and his dorbar, who have also signed the bond to keep the peace, are continuing to hunt her down and make her life miserable. “Just a few days ago even after signing the bond, Lapang and his dorbar have issued a statement in some newspapers which are full of lies and highly defamatory against Regina personally as a woman,” the source said, adding, she was advised to file defamation case against this.
Meanwhile it is learnt that Pathardharo used to be a locality under the Dorbar Shnong of Umkynsier, but had been granted a separate dorbar shnong under the Nongkhlaw Syiemship.
Sources said that however, till date Umkynsier and Pathardharo are still joined under a dual dorbar shnong. When a dorbar was called by Lapang, earlier in January to discuss throwing out Regina Marbaniang from the village, she was dragged to the dorbar where she was asked to prove her ‘indigenousness to Pathardharo.’
The sordar of Umkynsier, I. Lyngdoh, under which Pathardharo originally existed had announced that when Pathardharo was given its own dorbar in 2005, Regina’s father, Spar Rani was one of the former sordars in the past and that she is a ‘trai shnong’ and not a migrant as being charged, sources added.
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