Gaya, July 4: Threatening JD(U) legislator from Goh segment in Aurangabad district Ranvijay Singh of dire consequences, Maoists had placed red flags in his farm restricting the politician from farming on the plot.

The Maoists have also pasted posters at village Dihuri where the farmland is situated. Through flags and posters, Maoists have threatened Ranvijay not to defy the “ban on farming” on the land.

Ranvijay is not the only person, who is facing a ban on farming. According to sources, the Maoists have banned farming on more than 2,000 acre in Gaya and Aurangabad districts falling under Magadh division. Owners of these plots included legislators and influential people of the area.

Since Ranvijay is in jail, his son Sonu Kumar said the Maoists had imposed a ban on farming on their 20-acre land in 1980. Recently, the family had decided to lend the farmland to a sharecropper for agriculture purposes. But the Maoists had also threatened the farmer. Placing flags and pasting posters was a part of the threat. On getting information, the police recovered the flags and the posters.

Apart from the incident at village Dihuri in Aurangabad, the Maoists had also issued a threat to five brothers at village Chando under Barachatti police station not to do farming. The Maoists had set ablaze the mud houses of Rupam Yadav, Sohraj Yadav, Sewak Yadav, Dwarik Yadav and Thakuri Yadav accusing them of being police informers.

Maoists imposing ban on farming on the plots of landlords in Magadh division has been in practice since the ’80s. A source in the rebel group told The Telegraph on condition of anonymity that there was ban on thousands of acres of farmland in different villages of Gaya and Aurangabad. Villages, where the ban has been imposed fall under Konch, Aanti, Belaganj, Paraia, Bankebazaar, Imamganj, Dumaria and Barachatti police station areas of Gaya district besides, Deo, Goh, Madanpur and Rafiganj police station areas in Aurangabad district.