To Date:
15th July 2011
The Chairperson
Orissa
Human Rights Commission
Sub: Complaint against the Perpetrators for severely torture
to the anti-land acquisition members of Mahila Mandal in Angul district .
Hon’ble Sir,
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| Members of Mahila Mandal at OHRC |
Around 7 P.M. about
300-400 armed policemen under the leadership of Anugul SDPO, Tahasildar and
Nisha Silpanchal police In-charge Mr Subhanarayan Muduli entered the place of Bhagbat temple in Raijharan
village and made unwarranted lathi charged against the women and villagers of where more than 40
persons including women were seriously injured. A bullet had entered into the
leg of Sanjay Barik a 25 years old youth. Without giving prior intimation to
leave the place, the police started the operation indiscriminately. They had
used abusive languages against the women and became violent against the people.
Around 12 o.clock at night, the police again entered
into the said villages and targeted members of Mahila Mandal. They picked up
the women from their home and started abusing in slang languages and beaten
them up there. They had also threatened the villagers to face the dire
consequences if they will protest against the companies in future. Due to this inhuman attack, the private parts
of the women members are seriously injured. The police completely sieged the
connecting roads as a result the villagers couldn’t able to access the nearby
hospitals for getting immediate treatments.
The companies like Jindal Steel & Power Limited, Monnet
Power, Utkal Coal Limited [UCL] a subsidiary of IMFA and KCM are planning to
acquire of our entire land to extract coal mines. This proposed project will directly
displace the villages of Raijharan, Golagadia,Dhobamadhia and Kaunsidhip affecting
the populations of more than 7 thousand and indirectly affected more than 20
thousand people of nearby villages. From last year onwards, these villagers
have been continuously resisting against the land acquisition process in fear
of loosing their land and livelihoods. The villagers are continuously demanding
to hold talks with the governments, Instead of holding discussions, the company
officials are entering into the villages to woo them by offering attractive
false promises. This has raised the anger and anxieties among the people. On 12th
of July 2011, when the company officers entered into the villages, the people urged these officials
with a demand to have dialogue with the government officials in their presence.
This things raised anger among the official as their ill intention about
illegally acquiring land will be comes to know publicly.
At this juncture we appeal the commissions’ intervention in the
present issue urgently to protect the civil and democratic rights of ours with
following demands …
1. Urgent Intervene and
impartially investigate the incident.
2. Exemplary punishment against the culprit
officials who had disrespected and neglected their duties
3. Withdrawal of false cases against the
villagers.
4. Immediate order for medical treatment of
the injured
5. Immediate withdrawal of police officials
from the area.
6. Scrap the proposed land acquisition
process by the companies.
Your’s Faithfully
Mrs
Draupadi Sahoo,[President, Mahila Mandal]
At/Po-
Raijharan, Dist- Anugul, Orissa
Mrs Padmini Sahoo
Mrs Maharagi Dehuri
Mrs Sumati Sahoo
Mrs Pravati Nayak
Mrs Urbashi Sahoo
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