New Delhi, May 19 -- The 52 Jenu Kuruba Adivasi families, who returned to their village Karadikallu Attur Kolli on May 5, 2025, to reclaim their ancestral villages and forest rights, will hold a Gram Sabha on May 20.

In a joint statement made by Nagarahole Adivasi Jammapale Hakku Sthapana Samiti, Nagarahole, Karnataka; National Adivasi Alliance, India; Community Network Against Protected Areas, India; and People's Union for Civil Liberties, Mysuru Chapter, the tribespeople said the assertion of their rights was a direct result of the Nagarahole Tiger Reserve authorities' repeated interference, lobbying and hijacking of the due process of law in recognising individual forest rights (IFR), community forest rights (CFR) and community fores...