A dispute over a burial led to mob violence and vandalism that left several people — both policemen and civilians — injured in Chhattisgarh’s Kanker district, once again bringing to the fore Bastar’s long-simmering tensions over burial rights.
Tensions began on December 16 when Rajman Salam, the sarpanch of Badetevda village in Amabeda tehsil of Kanker district in the Bastar region, sought to bury his 70-year-old father’s body on his private property. While Salam, a Christian convert, wanted his non-convert father to be given a Christian burial, village residents objected.
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