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Forest activist 'detained'

Forest activist 'detained'

SNS, KURSEONG.,14 OCTOBER: Forest rights activists today claimed that police in Kurseong have detained their fellow activist Nima Sherpa for allegedly making a post on Facebook asking forest villagers not to receive 'title deeds' of land being distributed by the state government
"The Inspector-in-charge of the Kurseong Police Station called the Kurseong Division Committee President of the Himalayan Forest Villagers Organisation, Nima Sherpa, to the police station at 11.30 am today and has detained him till now," a forest rights activist said late in the evening.
People, including women from Baghgauda village near Kurseong from where Mr Sherpa, an ex-army man, hails gathered at the police station in the evening and tried to free Mr Sherpa.
Police sources in Kurseong confirmed that Mr Sherpa had been detained and that an 'inquiry' was on.

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