Police deployed as freed bonded labourers demand land for cultivation
The Hindu
They are staging a protest at Gangoor
Hassan district administration deployed hundreds of policemen at Gangoor in Arakalgud taluk of Hassan district on September 7 as freed bonded labourers prepared to cultivate Gobbali forest land, to highlight their demand for grant of the land. Dalit families of Gangoor, who were freed from bonded labour in 1994, have been demanding grant of land since then. For decades, they cultivated a part of Gobbali reserve forest land. But, the Forest Department evicted them on April 1, 2021.More Related News