100 VILLAGERS OF SUKTEL AREA ARRESTED
Tuesday, 21 January 2014
| PNS | BALANGIR | in Bhubaneswar
Lower
Suktel is gradually becoming an area of conflict between locals and the
administration as the Pardhiaapali villagers continue to oppose the construction
of the Lower Suktel Irrigation Project.
The land loser villagers
of Pardhiapali and Koindapali are demanding payment of compensation to them as
per the new Land Acquisition Act, 2013.
The police arrested
around100 villagers, including women and children, from the spot of the
agitation. The villagers alleged highhandedness by police officials, including
the SDPO), and the Sub-Collector and raised slogans against the district
administration.
“When we were putting
forth our demand of payment of compensation as per the land acquisition law,
the police assaulted us, including old men and women and children,” alleged
Hemangi Barik, a woman of Pardhiaapali.
Denying the allegation of
assault by the police and informing that about 100 people of Pardhiaapali and
Koindapali were arrested, Balangir SP Ravi Prakash said, “We have intimated the
villagers’ demand of implementation of the new land acquisition law and
compensation as per the law to the higher
authorities.”
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