In a chilling display of communal intolerance, Christian families in Chhattisgarh were denied the right to bury their loved ones in their native villages, forcing them to seek distant graveyards amid police helplessness and villager blockades, the Indian Express reported. The incidents, occurring within days of each other in November, have ignited severe criticism from rights groups, who condemn them as conspicuous violations of constitutional freedoms and symptoms of increasing anti-Christian hostility in the tribal heartland. The administration intervened but reportedly was unable to provide any “justifiable relief” or assistance to the distressed family.