…the village… [is] currently at the centre spot of a raging dispute between its residents and the government over the proposed 9,900-MW [Jaitapur] nuclear power plant…residents describe how the local police barged into their homes, beat their women and children up, opening fire at the young and old alike, destroying homes and vandalising property, they speak with the angst of a people engaged in fighting state-sponsored violence...Senior Inspector of Nate Police Station Dilip Borsate, under whose jurisdiction the area falls, said that it was the villagers who started assaulting policemen first. "Groups of people started attacking police personnel positioned at various locations. They pelted stones at police stations…At that point, we could not have just sat back and done nothing," he said.