NEW DELHI, FEB 6: Around 20 armed men barged into the Jai Mata Di farmhouse in Chattarpur, beat up Romesh Sharma's employees, `abducted' six of them, took possession of the property on Friday night. They were allegedly sent by Congress MP M K Subba who had accused Romesh Sharma of illegally occupying his farmhouse.Twenty persons have been arrested and a case of criminal conspiracy has been registered against Subba who is reportedly missing.The police have recovered a gun, iron rods, lathis and hockey sticks from men took took over the disputed Chattarpur property. The police said that the intruders have named Subba in their statements. Sanjay Yadav, one of the employees at the farm, said that he was sitting with the gatekeeper, when he heard someone knock at the door. ``But before we realised what was happening, five of them scaled down the wall and overpowered us. They broke open gate and let the others in. Then they beat us up and and pushed us into a TATA Sumo waiting outside the gate,'' he said. Theemployees say there were beaten up, bundled into the Sumo, abandoned near Bhaati mines and threatened them not to return to the farm.They say they caught a bus back and alerted the police.The employees say the men had come prepared with their folding beds and packed lunch and were apparently dining and celebrating when the police reached the farmhouse. The farmhouse hit the headlines with the arrest of alleged Dawood Ibrahim associate Romesh Sharma. This was allegedly one of a number of properties Sharma had illegally occupied.Subba had filed a complaint in which he accused Sharma of cheating, forgery and using forged documents. The case was being probed by the Special Task Force and was later handed over to the Crime Branch. The case is now pending in the court of Metropolitan Magistrate K.S Mohi and a chargesheet has been filed against Sharma.The Assam-based Subba is alleged to have had business links with Sharma. They were reportedly planning to set up an amusement park in Haryana. Subba, whowas a Nepali citizen, was reportedly convicted in a murder case in Nepal before he came to India. Initially, his base was Arunachal Pradesh but he later shifted to Assam where he established himself as a prominent Congress leader and businessman. Metropolitan Magistrate Brijesh Sethi today remanded the accused to judicial custody till February 20. Rejecting the bail plea of the accused, the magistrate said: ``Keeping in mind the fact that not only the complainant and other occupants were beaten but four of them were also abducted, I am of the opinion that no grounds for bail are made out at this stage.'' The accused have been charged with trespassing, causing hurt, rioting, abduction and under the Arms Act. The defence counsel R.N. Mittal had argued that charge - a non-bailable offence under Section 452 - levelled against the accused was not justified. According to him, they had not trespassed the property with an intention of causing grievous injury.
