Arunachal: Siang DC files complaint against activist Ebo Mili for anti-dam protest
Arunachal: Siang DC files complaint against activist Ebo Mili for anti-dam protest
Digital Desk: Tension hovers around the disputed Siang Upper Multipurpose Project (SUMP), Siang Deputy Commissioner P.N. Thungon has filed a formal police complaint against noted human rights and anti-dam activist Ebo Mili for allegedly violating Section 144 during a protest in Begging village.
The protest, driven by Ebo Mili and members of the Siang Indigenous Farmers' Forum, took place on May 23 and drew over 400 people who were opposed to the construction of the proposed 11,000 MW mega dam, directly defying the district administration's public assembly ban order placed a day earlier.
According to government sources, charges have been made under Sections 135, 191, and 324 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), as well as Sections 3 and 4 of the Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act.
The state administration had already deployed armed personnel to help technical teams doing pre-construction investigations at the dam site, escalating tensions among indigenous tribes.
Following the confession made by the locals in Siang and Upper Siang districts have expressed significant distress over irreparable damage to their ancestral land and water systems.
Activist Ebo Mili, who has already been arrested twice for similar acts of obstruction, is an acclaimed advocate for indigenous rights and environmental preservation.
