The National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST) has now sought an action-taken report from the police in Telangana’s Khammam district, the place round 300 individuals from the Koya tribe (a Scheduled Tribe), had been cheated by a person promising to get their lands registered and supply forest pattas.
The petitioners had approached the NCST, saying that they have been victims of the “Salwa Judum”, had fled from Left-wing extremism (LWE) violence in Chhattisgarh and settled in Telangana. In a listening to earlier than the Commission on Wednesday headed by member Ananta Nayak, the petitioners mentioned that the accused cheated them thrice.
The Commissioner of Police, Khamman, additionally appeared earlier than the Commission through the listening to and submitted that the accused was a routine offender who had absconded with the cash given to him by the tribespeople. The police added that an FIR had been registered in the matter and that investigation was happening.
The complainants alleged to the Commission that the police was not appearing in opposition to the accused, including that authorities in Telangana weren’t issuing ST certificates to them. Given that their roots have been in Chhattisgarh, the tribespeople possess ST certificates issued in Chhattisgarh.
This, regardless of the Koya tribe being listed as an ST in each Chhattisgarh and Telangana.
The Commission mentioned that it was taking up this case together with that of the “Salwa Judum”, contemplating the gravity of the problem.
