Assam: Eviction drive in Goalpara, 44 Families Homeless
A senior official said that the illegal settlers were served eviction notices much prior to the eviction drive.
GUWAHATI- At least 44 families were evicted in an anti-encroachment drive in Assam’s Goalpara district on Friday, officials said.
The eviction drive was carried out by the district administration in the Pancharatna area, under the Balijan revenue circle of Goalpara district.
A senior official said that the illegal settlers were served eviction notices much prior to the eviction drive.
Security forces were deployed by the administration to carry out eviction exercise in a peaceful manner.
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Meanwhile, the residents claimed that they have been residing at the place for the last three decades. However, the administration said that all the 44 families illegally settled on government land.
Earlier, in September, in the Sonapur area of the Kamrup district, a routine eviction drive descended into violence, and a violent clash was broke out between the local police and the residents when the police attempted to remove what they believed to be unlawful colonies on a 100-bigha tract of land that housed about 150 people, resulting in the tragic deaths of two inhabitants and injury to several others.
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To recall, in September 2021, two persons were killed and 15 policemen injured when a clash broke out between alleged encroachers and the police during an eviction drive in Assam’s Gorukhuti village.
