Umred farmer held for making hoax bomb call to Mumbais Mantralaya ? Staff Reporter : ? The farmer made the phone call to highlight his plea of not getting compensation for his acquired land NAGPUR Rural police arrested a farmer from Umred tehsil for making a hoax call to Mumbais Mantralaya building on Sunday afternoon. The farmer made the phone call to highlight his plea of not getting compensation for his agricultural land acquired by Western Coalfields Ltd (WCL) in 1997. The farmer is identified as Sagar Kashinath Mandhre (40) a resident of Makardhokda village in Umred tehsil. A police official informed that the phone call was received at the Disaster Management Control Room set up in the Mantralaya building to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic at 12.40 pm. The farmer told the officials that a bomb was placed in the Mantralaya. Mumbai police personnel along with Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad (BDDS) teams rushed to the Mantralaya. The bomb squads checked the area and found nothing.The officials understood that it was a hoax. The investigating agencies then started searching for the caller and noticed that the call was made from Nagpur. Nagpur Rural Police went on alert mode and a farmer was detained. He confessed for making the call and said that for a long time he was worried about the compensation of the acquired land. But no one was listening to his plea. He made this call to draw attention of the government and the administration a police official claimed. Mandhre had seven acres of land near his village. Some part of the land he sold to a man while some part was acquired byWCL. He told the police that the WCL had not issued compensation to his acquired land. The official further said that Mandhre was physically handicapped. He wrote several applications to the administration to get the compensation from WCL. However the administration denied his claim. He used to threaten administration of self-immolation on every Independence Day and Republic Day the officil said. Mandhres claim is a misconception says District Collector DISTRICT Collector Ravindra Thakare told The Hitavada that while working as Additional Commissioner at Divisional Commissioners office he had examined the claim of the farmer Sagar Mandhre for compensation. “Mandhre not receiving compensation for his land is his misconception” said Thakare. The District Collector said that the papers of Mandhre were checked properly and measurement of the land was also done.

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