Authorities in Assam have demolished more than 1,200 houses belonging to Bengali Muslim families during a two-day eviction drive in Sonitpur district, officials said this week. The demolitions were carried out on January 5 and 6 in areas falling within and around the Burhachapori Wildlife Sanctuary, as the state government moved to remove what it...
Citing humanitarian grounds, the Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said officials had been instructed to identify eligible families who lost shelter and submit a list within two days. The Karnataka government on Monday said it would allot alternative housing to families displaced by the demolition of homes during an anti-encroachment drive in Kogilu village on the...
Assam has carried out multiple eviction and demolition drives since the BJP came to power in the state in 2016, many of them in settlements predominantly inhabited by Bengali-speaking Muslims Authorities in Assam’s Nagaon district have evicted more than 1,500 Bengali-speaking Muslim families from what officials say is encroached reserved forest land, local media reported...