Following the demonstration by over ten thousand men and women affected by the Indira Sagar and Omkareshwar dams on the 28th of October 2009 in Khandwa, Khandwa police in an unprecedented action has arrested all the key activists of Narmada Bachao Andolan from their offices and the dharna site, in front of the Khandwa Collectorate. From 29th October more than a thousand adivasis had been protesting infront of the Khandwa Collectorate, since the MP government refused to live up to the Jabalpur High Court order of giving 5 acres of land to elder son of each of the oustees.