Before he was convinced to take home his buffalo, the man wrote a memorandum to the state chief minister. (Photo: Hemendar Sharma/India Today)

A 35-year-old man of Sironj in district Vidisha on Wednesday brought his buffalo to the tehsil headquarters and tied it to the car of the naib tehsildar alleging that he was demanding a bribe of Rs 25,000 from him.

I have been running behind the naib tehsildar for the past six months as we want to settle the land records of the family but he refuses to do my job till I don't pay him the money. I don’t have the money and the only valued possession with me is my buffalo so I tied it to his car, Bhupendra Singh who tied his buffalo to the car said.

The Naib Tehsildar Sidharth Singhal, however, denied the charges and alleged that Bhupendra Singh was doing the drama for publicity.

On whether the work regarding the settlement of family land records was pending with him, Singhal did not say anything.

Bhupendra Singh, before he was convinced to take home his buffalo, wrote a memorandum to the state chief minister and handed the same to the sub-divisional magistrate.

SDM Sanjay Jain while accepting that he had received the memorandum said that the allegations levelled against the naib tehsildar are being looked into.