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Locals in India’s Odisha allege forgery behind land taken for Adani mine

Forged signatures and thumbprints – even of dead and fictitious people – allegedly used to get land for bauxite mine.

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Forged signatures and thumbprints – even of dead and fictitious people – allegedly used to get land for bauxite mine. Koraput, India – Raghunath Khara was shocked to look at his thumb impression on a piece of paper that declared he had consented to a government proposal to mine his village’s pristine forest land for bauxite.

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