Carrying banners and placards, the demonstrators raised slogans such as “Jal, Jungle, Zameen Hamara Hai” (water, forest, and land are ours), as they gathered outside the collector’s office.
The victims, identified as Raj Kumar (41) and his daughter Sushila (21), were admitted to a local hospital with injuries.
On Tuesday afternoon, a 3-year-old boy playing outside his house in Baba Bangla village, under Kaiserganj tehsil, was suddenly snatched by a wolf in front of his mother.
The initiative aligns with broader state and national anti-narcotics strategies, reflecting coordinated efforts between law enforcement, local governance, and agricultural authorities.
Subsequently, troops of an armoured regiment of the same brigade joined in the rescue mission and this endeavor resulted in the safe evacuation of nine more villagers, bringing the total number of lives saved to 21.
Residents of several villages held a protest near the Mundka-Bakkarwala toll plaza for the past few days.
The proceedings at the panchayat were presided over by Chaudhary Surendra Solanki, head of the Palam 360 villages, in the presence of Karala (17), Pradhan Samundar Singh Tikri (5), Pachgaon Pradhan Anar Singh, Surendra Dabas, Naresh Lakra, Dharmendra Bakkarwala, Rajinder Pradhan, and Moolchand Sahrawat.
They constructed a bamboo-thatched school hut through collective donations and voluntary labour after repeated appeals to repair their crumbling government school went unanswered.
Two villagers were brutally killed with sharp weapons by suspected Maoists in south Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district. Officials say the heightened security pressure has led to desperation among Maoist cadres, prompting them to target unarmed civilians.
While there are several success stories of villagers planting more trees on their land and taking good care of them, the situation becomes different when it is a question of mobilizing people for regeneration of community and common land, including degraded forest land and village pastures.
