There has been an extensive history of Indigenous displacement and dispossession since the creation of the Tiger Reserve in 1974, however, most of the documented violations have occurred in the past twenty years. 

In 2001, the Bori, Kund and Koha villages were reportedly relocated and in 2003 the process of relocating the Vairat, Churni and Dhargad villages commenced in 2003. 

In 2007, the Maharashtra government passed a resolution to relocate a further 87 villages from the main region designated a tiger reserve. Compensation of INR 10 lakh (12000 USD today) were offered to eligible families, however, Indigenous communities resisted removal and sought to reclaim their land under the Forest Rights Act 2006. These rights were largely rejected and the families were designated ‘encroachers’ to be forcibly relocated. A total of 1360 families were reportedly evicted in 2008^[1].Since relocation, many Indigenous families have been subject to poverty and discrimination (especially in seeking employment) and have not been offered full compensation as promised. As the government has continued to displace tribal villages forcibly and with inadequate compensation and rehabilitation, Indigenous peoples have continued to organize in resistance and recognition of their land rights. 

 In 2015, families who could not proof their lands status in the villages of Dhakna, Sawrya, Bhandum, Borikheda, Gadgabhandum, Dabhiya, Dolar and Gadgamalur located in the reserve were allegedly removed by Special Protection Forces. In 2016, forest department officials allegedly burnt down the home of an Indigenous family built on forest lands and a park officer was arrested on rape charges.  In June 2017, nearly 600 families were relocated from Rohinkhidki village in the Amot wildlife division. The same year over 1200 Indigenous people returned to their ancestral forest lands and set up an occupation movement lasting 36 hours.  Impacted communities were reportedly not consulted and did not give their consent. Reported human rights violations would include torture, arbitrary arrests, intimidations, threats; criminalization, confiscation of livestock and filed criminal cases against villagers^[2].  In January 2019, relocated tribal people demanded the forest department to return their land. Protests reportedly turned violent, with around 40 forest guards and members of the State Reserve Police Force getting injured.^[3] In 2019, state police were deployed against another protest where 40 people were reportedly injured and 20 Indigenous land protectors were arrested. Throughout the timespan of dislocation, Indigenous peoples have furthermore been allegedly violently harassed and assaulted by forest department and local law enforcement officials, arrested, and reportedly ill-treated and tortured while in custody. In August 2022, Ankush Gorelal Mavaskar, a 25 year old Indigenous youth was tortured by forest staff when went fishing in the Wan forest area under Akot wildlife division of Melghat Tiger Reserve.