In Goalpara district, Assam, a joint police and forest force team faced a violent clash with evicted settlers in the Paikan reserve forest, resulting in at least one fatality. The authorities were conducting an eviction drive, continuing from last Saturday when 140 hectares of forest land were cleared, impacting hundreds of houses and religious structures built by Bengal-origin migrant Muslims.
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