Calcutta High Court Orders Death Certificates for Missing Nandigram Protesters

The Calcutta High Court directed authorities to issue death certificates for three individuals who went missing during a 2007 rally in Nandigram. Families of Aditya Bera, Satyen Polle, and Balaram Singh sought the court's intervention after 16 years of their disappearance. The court ordered the certificates to be issued within a month.

The Calcutta High Court on Thursday mandated the issuance of death certificates to the families of three individuals who vanished in 2007 during an anti-land acquisition rally in Nandigram.

The family members of Aditya Bera, Satyen Polle, and Balaram Singh sought judicial intervention in 2023, requesting local panchayat authorities to provide death certificates after more than 16 years of uncertainty.

Justice Shampa Sarkar instructed the panchayat authorities to facilitate the issue of death certificates within a month and aid families in completing relevant applications.

Bera, Polle, and Singh disappeared during a procession at Gokulnagar in Nandigram amid the anti-land acquisition movement led by then-opposition leader Mamata Banerjee against the Left Front government's industrialization plans.

(With inputs from agencies.)