Akhil Bharatiya Adivasi Vikash Parishad (ABAVP) has called for a 24-hour Dooars bandh on against the state forest official's alleged torching of adivasi huts at Birsamunda Basti under Malbazar police station in the Dooars on 4 December.
The shutdown has been convened demanding an immediate arrest of the forest beat officer concerned Mr Maite Biswakarma and his team, who had allegedly carried out the torching. The adivasis are also demanding adequate monetary compensation for the victim families. The ABAVP has also announced protest rallies across the Dooars at 2 p.m. tomorrow, laying siege to the forest offices there on 12 and 13 December and an indefinite Dooars-Terai shutdown from 15 December.
Thursday, December 11, 2008
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