On 22 September 2021, 36 community-based and environmental defenders were charged for protesting the irregularities of a public hearing on the extension of the licence of a bauxite mining company, and 16 of them including the 16-year-old son of a HRD were arrested in the next days by the police, while Mr. Abhi Sadepelli and his wife received death threats by unknown individuals in Koraput district, India.