Justice Solicited against the Brutal Attack of Jindal Company

To
The Chairperson
National Human Rights Commission
New Delhi

Hon'ble Sir,

On 25th January 2012 around 4 thousand unarmed men and women went to Jindal Steel Plant, Angul district in Odisha to demand a justified compensation for the land forcibly grabbed from them and also to demand jobs which was promise to them both by the Company and Odisha Government. When the procession arrived in the factory security guard of the Jindal Steel Company and hired goons brutally attacked men and women especially women who were in the front against the struggle. The barbaric scene is difficult to explain to in words. In front of a large posse of police the hired goons in the security guards of Company attacked them with iron rods and stick. More than 200 men and women became seriously injured and admitted in the  Angul district Hospital and some of them were shifted to SCB medical college, Cutack, without any assistance or help of the govt. Many injured women are not in the hospital being feared. Now they are in their homes without medical treatments many of them are now admitted in SCB Medical College, Cuttack and different hospitals in Angul. Women were beaten ruthlessly with iron rods their cloths were torn, they were bleeding profusely, the bestiality of the goons reached most shocking and appalling limits when some of them inserted iron rods into the private parts of the women. There is nothing much to say after this about the great proclamation of Odisha Chief Minister about the so called great peaceful industrialization of Odisha. When an FIR was lodged the local police station, none of the senior executive of the company including the CEO was arrested except the token arrest of the security officer. This incident is a horrifying indicator of the growing state and corporate attacks on peaceful mass movement of Odisha. 

 The heinous attack by Jindal company is a conspiracy with Dist administration to suppress the voice of the displaced people to not to fight for their right to life and livelihood.

More than 15 thousand people have been displaced for Jindal Steel and Power Ltd. company in Angul Dist. of Odisha in last 5 years. The Govt of Odisha had suppressed the anti-displacement movement at the beginning, People had opposed in the public hearing conducted by the State Pollution control Board and managed by the dist. administration. Though the officials had declared that another public hearing would be done, but it did not take place. The first hearing was manipulated and fabricated by which the company got environment clearance, Practically four thousand acres of land were acquired by the govt for the company by using police force as well as alluring high payment or compensation and employment guarantee. But after acquisition of land, the displaced people are being betrayed and left un-employed without source of livelihood. Now the company have grabbed another 5000 acres of forest land destroying more than 4 laks of Sal tree without any clearance

We demand immediate arrest of the CEO and other senior executive of Jindal Steel Plant registering criminal case against them , dismissal and trial of all the policemen, who was present during this inhuman shameful incident including SP of the district and demanding justified compensation, rehabilitation and permanent employment.

We are hopeful the hon'ble commission will take appropriate action on the above said demands.

With sincere regards

Manoj Jena
Convenor
Human Rights Front [HRF]

298,Ganga Nagar,Unit-VI, Bhubaneswar-01, Odisha

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