Topic: Tribals
‘Violation of fundamental rights’: Rahul Gandhi condemns police action on tribals in Chhattisgarh
Violence erupted on Thursday in the Hasdeo forest of Chhattisgarh’s Surguja district, as local residents clashed with police over the felling of trees for a coal mining project.
UP tops atrocities against SCs in 2022, MP records highest against STs, says govt report
A government report has revealed that Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Madhya Pradesh reported the highest number of atrocities against Scheduled Castes (SCs) in 2022.
‘They were villagers who went to pick Tendu leaves, not Maoists’: In Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur, families question “encounter that killed 12 Maoists”
On 10 May, the Police Superintendent of Bijapur, Jitendra Kumar Yadav, claimed to have killed 12 Maoists, most of whom carried a collective prize money of 41 lakhs. Two days later, villagers and activists from the region alleged that it was a fake encounter and the people killed were not Naxals but merely villagers from Pedia village who had gone to the forest to pick Tendu leaves.
Adivasi boy assaulted by police in Kerala: Family demands justice
A minor Adivasi boy in Kerala’s Kozhikode district has accused the state police of beating him up, dealing another blow to the Kerala government's home ministry led by chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan.
1992 Vachathi violence against tribals: Madras HC upholds conviction of all 215 officials
The Madras High Court on Friday dismissed all appeals filed by 215 convicts, including several officals of the police and forest departments, in cases related to mass crimes against tribals of the Vachathi village of Dharmapuri district of Tamil Nadu in 1992.
Tribal man shot at by BJP MLA’s son in Madhya Pradesh
After an altercation on Thursday, the son of a Bharatiya Janata Party MLA in Madhya Pradesh shot at an Adivasi man in Singrauli district, PTI reported, citing the police.
