Kalpetta, Sunday, February 14, 2010: Over 20 activists of a pro-CPM outfit were evicted from three localities of Wayanad district after they encroached upon the lands as part of their “struggle for landless tribals”.

Police had evicted 22 members of the pro-CPM ‘Kerala State Karshaka Thozhilali Union’ (KSKTU) from two locations of the Arapetta estate of the Harrison Malayalam Tea Plantation Ltd and four activists of a CPI (ML) faction from the Centinal Rock Estate at Munakkai in the district, Deputy Superintendent of Police Purushottam Adiyodi said.

A group of suspected KSKTU workers had claimed right over the land by encroaching it on Wednesday last claiming that the land was under the company’s illegal possession.