How Odisha Is Tackling Protests Against Mining: An Abduction, Arrests, Terror Cases Against Adivasi Protestors
In August, police filed criminal cases against Adivasi-Dalit anti-mining protestors, arrested 25 in southeastern Odisha, which holds more than half of India’s bauxite reserves, and allegedly abducted a global environmental prize winner. Acting on orders of the Biju Janata Dal government of chief minister Naveen Patnaik, ahead of state elections, the police filed charges that range from rioting to terrorism—for the first time in 20 years of these protests—under 16 sections of the law.
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