National Human Rights Commission on Sunday issued notices to Chhattisgarh government and state police in connection with alleged social boycott of two tribal families in Korba district after a village panchayat's diktat.
According to an NHRC statement released on Sunday, notices in this regard were issued to the Chief Secretary and Director General of Police, Government of Chhattisgarh to submit a detailed report in the matter within four weeks.
The step was taken after the Commission took suo motu cognisance of a media report that two tribal families have been facing social boycott in Dhaurabatha village for the last fourteen months following a diktat of the Ghunghutti Rampur Panchayat in Korba district.
"Due to this, nobody talks to them; they are prevented from grazing their cattle; they cannot shop from the shops in the village; and their children cannot go even to Aanganwadi centre," the statement said.
According to the media report, the local police did not take any action in the matter. The Collector and Superintendent of Police of Korba were approached and a police team visited the village on April 15, only to level allegations against the affected families.
"Allegedly, a youth accompanying the police team received a sum of Rs 2,000 from the affected families after threatening them," the statement said.
The first family was reportedly subjected to social boycott on February 25, 2013 when on charges of abusing the Sarpanch, it failed to pay the entire fine of Rs 10,000.
The other family was made to suffer the same fate when one of its members was seen talking to a member of the socially boycotted family against the diktat of the Panchayat.
The Commission has observed that the contents of the press report, if true, amount to serious violation of human rights of the families of these tribal people.
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