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Assam evicts over 1,100 Muslim families in Lutumari forest, despite taungya system settlement claims

In June 2026, the All India Union of Forest Working People urged the Assam government to halt evictions of villagers in the Lutumari Longjap Reserve Forest, arguing that residents of four villages had been settled under the taungya forest management system and should not be treated as ordinary encroachers.