“The Supreme Court has expressed concern that the path of development by depriving landowners of their land seemed to give rise to insurgency and political extremism which, along with terrorism, are supposed to be the three gravest threats to the country’s integrity and sovereignty”. A Bench of Justices Aftab Alam and B S Chauhan, in a judgment on 19 July, 2010, said: “The whole issue of development appears to be so simple, logical and commonsensical. And yet, to millions of Indians, development is a dreadful and hateful word that is aimed at denying them even the source of their sustenance.”.
The Hindu, Kolkata, 22 July, 2010. Special Leave Petition (C) No 6933 of 2007 Mahanadi Coal Fields Ltd & Anr. Petitioners versus Mathias Oram & Ors, Respondents. Similar conviction was articulated by Professor Randhir Singh, Head of the Political Science Department, Delhi University. He said: “The kind of development the government is practicing in tribal areas can be labeled ‘developmental terrorism’ ” [The Hindu, Kolkata, 25 April, 2010]. Further details...
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