Kokrajhar, June 15 -- Tensions flared in Assam's Kokrajhar district on Saturday as hundreds of local residents in the Paglijhora Protected Reserved Forest (PRF) area, under the Parbatjhora Forest Division, clashed with local political leaders.

The confrontation arose amidst suspicions that a survey was being conducted for land allegedly transferred to the Adani power plant.

For the past four days, men and women from Paglijhora have been staging vociferous protests against the land allocation to Adani group for a thermal plant.

Their agitation escalated as they blocked the Gauripur-Banshbari PWD road, bringing traffic to a standstill.

The core of the dispute lies in the Assam government and Bodoland Territorial Region (BTR) administrat...