Direction of OHRC to Collector and CDMO, Keonjhar to make an on the
spot Study of Situation of Belabahali village and send a team of health workers
to provide necessary medical facilities to the villagers
On 28.7.15,
a Team of Human Rights Activists and Lawyers filed complaint to Odisha Human
Rights Commission seeking immediate
intervention of the Commission to
withdraw huge police force deployed around Belabahali village under Anandpur Sub-division of Keonjhar district and direct the Chief District Medical
Officer, Keonjhar to send a well-equipped health team to provide treatment to
the people suffering from various diseases and wounded due to police
attack. It was reported to the Team that a
old man suffering from paralysis
died due to lack of treatment.
It needs to be mentioned here
that since last twenty days, the police
force have been cordoning the whole village
inhabited by around 10,000 people
after brutal police attack and
atrocity on the innocent villagers
who have been opposing proposed diversion and expansion of the road
and construction of new
bridge on 215 National Highway over Kushei river by National Highway Authority of India and the State Government
on the pretext that it would
create water-logging and flood in the area and damage 2000 hectares of
agriculture land leading to putting adverse impact
on their economy.
15-member Civil Society Groups had visited to
Belabahali village on 18.7.15 to ascertain the fact about the incident and magnitude of police atrocity and reason
of it. The Team noticed the
pathetic situation of the villagers
and their helplessness in the
village. Having been
frightened and to evade arrest, the
villagers could not go to agriculture field for cultivation. The children could
not go to the school. The students could
not go to apply form for admission and entrance test for job. The people who
have suffered injury are not allowed for treatment.
After returning from the
villager, the team along with other activists had organised protest Dharana in
front of the office of Director
General of police
and submitted memorandum demanding
withdrawal of police from the village and false cases filed against the villagers.
Finding no action from the
Director General of Police, the Team
personally met Acting Chairman, Odisha Human Rights Commission and
sought commission’s immediate intervention in order to provide justice to the villagers.
The Commission taking into consideration the plea of Human Rights Activists issued
order to the
Collector and CDMO, Keonjhar district
to make an on the spot Study of Situation of
Belabahali village and send a team of health workers to provide necessary
medical facilities to the villagers within 3 weeks and fixed
the date 24.8.15 for further orders.
The Team members who met
OHRC were Sri Pradip Pradhan,
Pratap sahu, Sri Sudhir Mohanty, advocate, Odisha High Court, Sachikant Pradhan, Sri Debashis Hota, Trade Uion
Leader, Sanjay sahu, Jayant Das, RTI Activist, Menaka Kinnar etc.
Pradip Pradhan, M-9937843482
Date- 31.07.2015
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