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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Economist, eight others held in Bengal for protests against Deocha Pachami coal project -Shiv Sahay Singh

Economist, eight others held in Bengal for protests against Deocha Pachami coal project -Shiv Sahay Singh

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published Published on Feb 23, 2022   modified Modified on Feb 24, 2022

-The Hindu

Rights, environmental activists have raised questions on the proposed plan that is likely to displace 5,000 families

Prasenjit Bose, an economist and activist based in Kolkata, and eight others were arrested earlier this week from the Deocha Pachami coal project area in the Md. Bazar block in West Bengal’s Birbhum district. The nine persons— four from Kolkata and five locals from Md. Bazar — have been booked for unlawful assembly under Section 149 and non-bailable charges of Section 333 of voluntarily causing hurt to public servant in discharge of his duties of the Indian Penal Code. 

The First Information Report (FIR) lodged by sub-inspector Bandhan Deogharia has stated that the accused under the banner of Birbhum Jomi Jeeban Jeevika O Prakiti Bachao Mahasabha on February 20 held a meeting at the Dewangunj playground “to foment people, particularly Adivasi people having lands and dwellings under the Deocha Pachami Dewangunj Horisinga Coal area not to give their land for the said project and also not to allow the project to start”. 

‘Misleading propaganda’
 
In the FIR, the police officer said the mob was declared unlawful and he requested them to disperse, but they did not pay “any heed and assaulted me and other officers”. They are under judicial custody and will be produced before a court in Birbhum on Thursday. Under the banner of the Birbhum Mahasabha, a protest rally was organised on February 20 to demand scrapping of the proposed coal mine. The activists said a “misleading propaganda has started that the villagers are willing to give land voluntarily”

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The Hindu, 23 February, 2022, https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/economist-eight-others-held-in-bengal-for-protests-against-deocha-pachami-coal-project/article65077244.ece?homepage=true


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