Jamshedpur, May 26: Six persons were injured, four of them seriously, when members of two families clashed with each other at Tamulia under Chandil police station area in Seraikela-Kharsawan district this morning.

According to sources, the Sharmas have 36 acres of land at Tamulia along NH 33, where they grow paddy with the help of servants.

Trouble broke out today when the Sharmas learnt that their neighbours Teju Ram had encroached one katah of land while building a boundary wall on his plot of land beside the Sharmas’s plot.

Rajnath, Permanand, Sharda and their father Hardev Sharma rushed to the spot and asked Teju Ram to demolish the wall. But Teju Ram refused. Infuriated, the Sharmas started breaking the wall with crowbars.

On seeing their wall getting pulled down, Teju Ram and his son Narayan picked up stones and began hurling them at the Sharma family, who retaliated the attack by hitting back with the crowbars and sticks.

The situation soon started resembling a battle.

Within an hour, police arrived and took all six persons into custody.

Hardev Sharma said: “I always known that the Rams had an eye on my plot. I had even warned them to stay away.”

Teju Ram said he had got his land measured by government officials. “I did not encroach their land. Instead I left a gap of three feet. You can get it verified by bringing in the government officials who had measured my plot,” Teju Ram.

The police have registered a case against all six persons from the both families in connection with the clash.Teju Ram, Narayan Ram, Hardev Sharma, Rajnath Sharma, Permanand Sharma and Sharda Sharma were all injured and admitted to the MGM Medical College Hospital. They were later shifted to a private nursing home.

Most of them sustained head injuries caused by the stones and the sticks and crowbars.