Hyderabad, May 3 -- Two civil society organisations have demanded an immediate halt to the relocation of Adivasi communities from villages falling within the Amrabad Tiger Reserve area in Telangana, alleging that the displacement drive is being carried out through coercion, manipulation of official records and outright falsehoods.

A six-member fact-finding team from the Human Rights Forum (HRF) and the Dalit Bahujan Front (DBF) visited the affected villages on Sunday, May 3, and found that Revenue, Forest and police officials were intimidating tribal residents opposed to the move, stalling welfare schemes in their villages, and in at least one instance, pushing through a purported gram sabha resolution without the legally required quorum...