Coal, drones, two guns.
Life is not easy for Indian coal miners. In Jharkhand, NTPC sent surveyors to survey a coal site. The experts took a UAV with them, but they forgot to get permission from the village assembly.
According to the police, local residents then shot down the UAV using a slingshot, took it, and surrounded the group's leader's car. Three company representatives and three drone operators were kidnapped and held for almost seven hours.
By this evening, the police agreed to release all six. To this end, NTPC had to undertake in writing that from now on any work on the site would first be agreed upon by the company with the village assembly.