Bhanu P Lohumi

Tribune News Service

Shimla, December 11

A serving Army Major, posted at the Myanmar border in Manipur, is upset over the constant harassment of his old parents back home over a land dispute. He has sought Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh’s intervention in the matter. He sought security for his parents alleging that the police were not acting on his complaints.In a three-page letter to the Chief Minister, Major Besari Lal alleged that his old parents at Chamboh village in Hamirpur district were being harassed by private secretary of a Chief Parliamentary Secretary (CPS) who even tried to kill them.“This has been going on for the past 10 years and all our efforts to seek protection from the police have proved futile as the latter seem under pressure. They are not looking into our complaints and the culprits are virtually torturing my parents,” he stated in his letter.“I am 3,000 km away from home. It is sad that the government can’t even provide security to my parents whose life has been made hell by the CPS’ private secretary. Is it not unfortunate that the government is not able to provide security to my father and mother living in Chamboh village,” he asked.He alleged that his parents were not allowed to move out and the brother of the private secretary even tried to kill them.Major Besari Lal questioned the Chief Minister is his decision to join the Army and to serve the country was wrong or he should quit the job to protect his parents as the government had failed to ensure their safety and security.“I am the only son of my parents and they are living with my younger sister who is physically challenged. My father is not able to cultivate his land which is adjacent to the land of the private secretary and his two brothers. They have dug up our land to make a road,” he said.