2019 Daman indigenous land clearing protests

[2] With 11,000 Damanese living the Leicester East constituency, members of the community approached their MP Keith Vaz, who flew out to Daman to meet the Administrator Praful Khoda Patel.

[3] On 1 November 2019 with Police assistance, Rakesh Minhas oversaw the bulldozing of around 90 homes that the local administration stated were illegally constructed.

The newly evicted residents erupted in street protests prompting local MP Lalu Patel to write to the Collector requesting that they "be restored their homes at the very sites they were razed, on humanitarian grounds".

By 3 November, local residents joined the homeless families for peaceful protest near the football ground and shouted slogans critical of Collector Rakesh Minhas.

Minhas responded by issuing a Section 144 order banning peaceful assembly of four or more persons, slogan-shouting and the use of loudspeakers across the entire district and ordered the conversion of Government High School, Bhimpore and the Government Sarvottam High School, Moti Daman into 'temporary jails'.

[2] On Monday 4 November 2019 Rakesh Minhas called a press conference and announcing - "We have removed 90 houses that were built illegally on the coastal area on the road from Jampore to the lighthouse.

The following day 25 Daman Municipal Council members with four Sarpanch from different villages travelled to meet Rakesh Minhas but were denied permission.

[5] As of March 2021 the site is now The Fern Seaside Luxurious Tent Resort offering tourist accommodation for US$80/£57GBP/6000 rupees per night.

Billionaire Binod Chaudhary, Nepal's wealthiest person, owns the Fern brand via his multi-national conglomerate CG Corp Global.