Adivasis, Amnesty demand probe into alleged land scam in Chhattisgarh

They allege that agents of companies had taken away land with 'manipulation'

Amnesty International India has demanded that the Chhattisgarh police must conduct a probe into the allegations by over 80 Adivasi villagers in Raigarh district that they had been unlawfully dispossessed of their lands for industrial use.

On June 14, 81 villagers approached the Raigarh's special police station for scheduled castes and scheduled tribes welfare and demanded the filing of First Information Report (FIR) against the agents of TRN Energy and Mahavir Energy Coal Beneficiation for allegedly taking away their land. Both the companies could not be contacted for their version.

Even the gram sabhas in the affected villages have passed