Farmer smuggles gravel from poramboke land

ERODE: The district police have registered a case against a 65-year-old farmer who threatened a woman when she tried to stop him from smuggling gravel from a poramboke land in the district. It is also alleged that the farmer tried to ram a tractor into her.

Police said K Jyothilakshmi (45) of Vaikkalmedu near Murungathozhuvu in Chennimalai has 80 cents of farmland in the village. Thangavel’s farmland is adjacent to her land and there is poramboke land near his farmland.