SSNNL land fencing protest: Villager threatens to immolate himself in Kevadia, detained

The Narmada Police Tuesday detained a 55-year-old villager from Kevadia village, who threatened to immolate himself as part of the ongoing tribal protests against the fencing of a land by the Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam Ltd (SSNNL), which the department acquired for the Narmada Dam project over six decades ago.

The villager has been detained and will be produced before an executive magistrate on Wednesday. The villager, Natwar Tadvi, threatened to set himself ablaze and brought out a can of kerosene while joining the protest, the police said. According to a villager of Kevadia, Tadvi claims that his farm land was fenced along with the open land parcel and he will have no other means of livelihood.