Involvement
In 1997, for specific reasons that aren't understood, a group of Jarawa adivasis in the Andaman Islands, hitherto fiercely isolationist, emerged from the forest and made contact with the non-tribal population. Over time, it became common to see Jarawas begging for food by the Great Andaman Trunk Road. This, in addition to widespread encroachment, poaching and commercial exploitation of Jarawa lands, caused a lawsuit to be filed with the Calcutta High Court, which has jurisdiction over the islands. The case escalated to the Supreme Court of India as a Public Interest Litigation (or PIL). SANE joined the Bombay Natural History Society and Pune-based Kalpavriksh in this petition, helping back the plea with ecological, cultural and genetic information. This resulted in the High Court passing a landmark judgment in 2001, directing the administration to take steps to protect the Jarawa from encroachment and contact, as well as preemptively ruling out any program that involved relocating the Jarawa to a new reservation. Planned extensions of the highway were also prohibited by the court.
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