India, Nov. 4 -- The Sarvahara Jan Andolan (SJA), an NGO working with tribal communities, on Tuesday said that 21 tribal families at Mhatroli village in Alibag were forcibly relocated from their land in March 2024, a month after Sarojini Narwekar, wife of Maharashtra assembly speaker Rahul Narwekar, purchased 15 acres of land there. The NGO also alleged that the families were threatened into signing documents consenting to their relocation.

When contacted, Rahul Narwekar dismissed the allegations, saying that a three-year-old issue was being revived to defame him. He claimed that the previous owner, from whom his wife had purchased the land, had resettled the tribal families who had "encroached" on it.

At a press conference in Mumbai, U...