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Farmland owners protest ore seizure

BELLARY: A torchlight procession was taken out in Hospet city on Saturday evening by farmers engaged in removing float ore from “patta” lands, in protest against the raids by the district administration against illegal mining. They also demanded that the Government accord them permission to extract ore from their lands.

A large number of farmers from various villages in the taluk, including Kallahalli, Rajapur, Venkatagiri, Kariganur, Sankapur, Vaddafrahalli and Jambunathahalli, participated in the rally organised under the aegis of the Raithara Hakku Badhyata Samiti. They raised slogans against District in-charge Minister Janardhan Reddy, MLA Anand Singh, and the district administration. The agitators also demanded that the ore seized by the district administration be returned to land owners.

The movement of vehicular traffic was affected for some time in the city on account of the procession. The district administration had, in accordance with instructions from Mr. Janardhan Reddy, raided several places in Hospet and Sandur taluks recently and seized over 3.5 lakh tonnes of float ore extracted by digging the land.

N. Chandrababu, president of the samiti, led the protest.

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