Centre stops tribal activist Gladson Dungdung from flying to UK

New Delhi: Well-known tribal rights activist and author from Jharkhand, Gladson Du-ngdung, has been prevented from boarding an early morning Air India flight to London on Monday at IGI Airport.

Air India, however, denied its involvement and said that “Mr Dung-dung was offloaded by immigration or government authority”. The airline confirmed that the activist was to travel by flight AI-115 from Delhi to London.

He was to travel to London where he was reportedly going to attend a workshop on environmental history and politics of South Asia, to be held at the University of Sussex on May 10.