Kasargod, February 8: Police arrested 30 Chengara agitators including women who tried to put up huts in front of the collectorate here on Monday morning.
The agitators had come with plastic sheets and bamboo poles to put up the huts. But their attempts were foiled by the police, who seized the materials and arrested the members.
The Chengara families said the government did not demarcate the land for each families and it was a rocky stretch of land unfit for any cultivation which was allotted to them in Peria.
Besides, there was no drinking water facility in the area and the families had to fetch water from a long distance. They said life in their allotted land was a nightmare for them.
As many as 327 Chengara families had been resettled in the land possessed by the Plantation Corporation Kerala. The Chrengra families had announced at the press conference here that they had planned to launch an indefinite agitation by staying in the temporary huts before the collectorate.
Police arrested and taken them to the police station, but no case was registered against the agitators.
As many as 11 men, 13 women and 6 children staged the sit in at the police station.
When they were let off by the police, they refused to leave the place. The police were then put in a dilemma. If any case was charged against them, they would have to be presented in the court within 24 hours.
Though the police told them that they would take them to Perila where they were given land, the Chengara agitators refused to leave the station.
Many of the Chengara families who had earlier come to Peria for settling in their land left for the native place since they could not live in an inhospitable terrain.
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