More than 90 families were displaced by a eviction campaign in Nalbari district of Assam on Monday, such eviction exercises in the state this month.
According to Nibedan Das Patoveri, Deputy Commissioner of Nalbari, the village Charai Reserve (VGR) at Barkhatri Revenue Circle was evicted to clean the encroachment on 453 bighas of land.
Beyond eviction, the district administration issued prohibitory orders under Section 163 of BNSS in the Bakricuchi Reserve, rejecting the assembly of more than five people. The order cited “the possibility of violation of peace and peace”, and need to prevent efforts to thwart “successful closing of eviction drive”.
On Monday morning, 12 bulldozers and more than 500 police personnel reached the site to complete eviction.
“There was no untoward incident. There are 93 families living here, and there were 319 houses and other built structures. Since it is VGR land, it is a policy of revenue department to clean such government land. When we already asked them to vacate the region, they do not give relief to themselves. The Indian Express,
The affected families are Bengali-root Muslims. For example, in the case of eviction drive in Golpara district two weeks ago, where more than 600 families were evacuated from a wetland region, affected families said they had moved to the area after their previous disposal lost for river erosion after their previous disposal.
“We have been living here for 28–30 years. We moved here from other parts of Barkhatri in the 1980s, such as Bhanganamari, Kurhamari, and Bhelangimari Panchayats captured only 80 bighas after being lost after the ground.
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Accepting a eviction in 2016, the residents of the region had approached the Gauhati High Court against it, presenting that they were in possession of land since 1981 and they settled there due to river erosion.
However, on 18 June, a bench of a Gauhati High Court of Justice Sanjay Kumar Medi did not allow the expansion of the interim order in which he was saved from expulsion, saying that it is “given the clear stand of the state that the land in the question is the land VGR land”.
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