The Supreme Court expressed concern over the plight of over two lakh tribals uprooted from their homes due to naxalite violence in Chhattisgarh.

Solicitor General of India Gopal Subramaniam, responding to the query of the Supreme Court, told a bench headed by Justice B Sudershan Reddy that the government was making all-out effort to rehabilitate the tribal’s who had to flee from their homes due to the fear of naxals, particularly in Dantewada district.

Dantewada is a naxal-dominated district of Chhattisgarh and is the worst affected in the state.

The apex court adjourned the hearing of the case till next week.

Earlier, the district and sessions judge, Delhi submitted the statement of six tribal’s recorded by him yesterday as per the directions of the Supreme Court. Six out of twelve eyewitnesses to the alleged massacre of nine villagers by CRPF personnel in 2009 were also produced before the Supreme Court.

On the previous date of hearing, the Court had directed the state of Chhattisgarh to produce all the 12 tribal’s who were the eyewitnesses to the alleged massacre. The directions were issued when the petitioners alleged that all the eyewitnesses have been forced to go underground by the police so that they do not testify against the culprits.

UNI