Badapada: displaced women and children imprisoned for a month by Vedanta and police
This report, directly from a Foil Vedanta team on the ground in Niyamgiri, tells a shocking story of the month long imprisonment of a group of Dalit women and children displaced by Vedanta’s Lanjigarh refinery. The testimonies provide clear evidence of the collusion of Vedanta and police working as one, and show the callous nature of their outright disregard for human rights or basic morality. Foil Vedanta is now following this case up with local lawyers.
See http://www.foilvedanta.org/news/badapada-displaced-women-and-children-imprisoned-for-a-month-by-vedanta-and-police/.
Vedanta’s CSR: Resettlement ‘prison’ and false arrests at Lanjigarh
This report comes direct from members of the Foil Vedanta team on the ground in Niyamgiri: On 7th June 2013, a four member team visited the Vedanta re-settlement colony in Lanjigarh, known as Vedanta Nagar, to interview a few people people settled there. As soon as we entered the colony, Vedanta’s Public Relations Officer – Mr. Siddharth Behera, and the Associate officer in charge of the colony – Mr Srikant Bohidar appeared riding a motorcycle, and started questioning us about what we were doing there and who we were. One of our team was a journalist with a press card, when he showed this one of the officers looked particularly worried. He started calling up higher level officials.
See http://www.foilvedanta.org/articles/vedantas-csr-resettlement-prison-and-false-arrests-at-lanjigarh/.