Water supply to tribal hamlet stopped in Maharashtra; five booked
Godbole said the village committee, which manages affairs of local areas, had been collecting water cess of Rs 100 per month from each family of Katkari for years.
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THANE: Drinking water supply to a tribal-dominated hamlet in Thane district was stopped allegedly by the local village committee over non-payment of cess, leading the police to file an FIR under the SC/ST Act against five persons and order a probe, an official said on Wednesday.
The rural police registered the FIR against five members of the village managing committee, four of them women, for allegedly stopping drinking water supply to Katkari, a tribal-dominated hamlet in Bhiwandi taluka of the district in Maharashtra, on a complaint of its residents, police said.