3 years ago, an eviction drive left 2 dead in Assam. Now, probe finds police should have exercised restraint, though govt took the right call

The committee was acceptable up done a authorities notification connected October 1, 2021 – days aft an eviction thrust to escaped up authorities onshore for the Assam government’s Gorukhuti agriculture task successful Dholpur led to clashes betwixt constabulary and protestors. While policemen were among those wounded successful the clashes connected September 23, 2021, a 12-year-old was among the civilians killed.

Hours aft the incident, the Assam CM announced an enquiry into the deaths. The findings person yet to beryllium made public. However, the study recovered that the authorities had “every close to behaviour evictions” successful the area, a root said. The study besides makes 16 cardinal recommendations.

“It lays retired that nary 1 has the close to inhabit nationalist land, beryllium it wood land, grazing onshore oregon tribal onshore since it is nationalist property, everyone has adjacent close to it and occupying it denies others of their close to it… it besides points to the criminality of the enactment of onshore grabbing,” said the source.

The eviction thrust saw astir 1,300 families, astir of them Bengali Muslim, evicted from astir 10,000 bighas of the land. Soon afterwards, enactment connected the multi-crore Gorukhuti agriculture task began.

According to the Assam government’s information , 10,620 families person been evicted from authorities onshore since 2016, of which 5,854 had been evicted since May 20, 2022. Four radical had been killed successful these evictions.