Following the recommendations of a special committee headed by former Supreme Court Justice A.K. Patnaik, the Rajnandgaon district administration has completed the procedure to release 280 tribals from jails in Naxalite cases.
“The committee had recommended resolving 245 cases and releasinge 280 persons of Scheduled Tribe (ST) community," an official communiqué stated on Monday.
Now there are no pending cases for release of tribals in the Rajnandgaon district courts, the statement said.
Earlier, in October 2019, the committee had recommended withdrawing 313 cases registered against tribals in eight Naxalite-infested districts of the state.