Who owns the forests: In Odisha?s Nabarangpur district, a row over a 9-acre patch of forest ended in two deaths

Posted by: 2016-08-01 03:03:23 ,
By Raj Kumar

On July 16, Balaram Das was battered to death near his home in Odisha?s Nabarangpur district after a fight over a nine-acre patch of forestland. As police make their arrests in the case, they say that fights over land could well be the biggest worry for them, even more than Naxal violence in a district that?s tagged as ?Left-wing-extremism affected?.
Das, a Dalit farmer who did folk theatre in Nabarangpur and in the neighbouring state of Chhattisgarh, was killed by Bhatra tribals in Baunsabeda hamlet of Umerkote block. He was lynched by Bhatra tribals, moments after Das stabbed tribal Phagunu Bhatra to death and critically injured Gurubaru Bhatra of the same village.
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