On the morning of March 19, people of Kalane village in Sindhudurg district of Maharashtra were roused by the sound of heavy machinery. Workers hired by mining company Minerals and Metals were building a road at 4 am leading up to the mine in Survey Number 57. 

People rushed to stop the work and got into an argument with the company officials and 50-odd security guards. “After the police came the officials and guards jumped into vehicles and fled.

One guard fell off a jeep and hurt himself,” Parag Gaonkar, a journalist and resident of Kalane, told Down To Earth. “Later, he died of internal injuries.”

The police booked 20 top leaders of the anti-mining agitation in the region. Parag said he had clicked photographs, including that of the guard falling, but the police refused to look at the pictures.

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