The National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST) has now issued notices to the Odisha government, and the Director General of the Railway Protection Force, in a case where a Scheduled Tribe migrant worker from Kandhamal district was assaulted at a railway station in Mumbai while on his way to start a job in Gujarat.
In the complaint sent to the NCST by civil rights lawyer Radhakanta Tripathy, it was said that the 22-year-old migrant worker, Angad Mallick’s arms were chopped off by the group of people who had attacked him some time in late April. The complainant said that the incident only came to light when Mr. Mallick returned to his village on June 30, with his arms severed.
Mr. Mallick, a resident of Dahalapadi Sahi in Baliguda NAC, was offered a job in Gujarat by one Rabi Sahani of the Baghmunda village, for which an advance amount was also paid to him. Mr. Mallick said he needed the job to support his family and on April 27, both boarded a train to Mumbai, from where they were meant to proceed to Gujarat.
