Nagpur: Inspection together by Taluka Land Record (TLR) officials and the Ministry of Forestry to ensure illegal logging from 59 teak trees in the Navegaon forest compartment in the Alegaon Range under the Akola Forest Division on Sunday when the Whistleblower was brutally attacked.
Reticle Range Forest Officer (RFO) KD Shriwas and Deputy Sarping Pahadsinghi Uttam Khule has launched a hunger strike on December 22, 2021, against illegal logging of 59 trees.
The strike was called after the local MLAS intervention in the field that TLR would make a shared inspection to ensure facts.
As planned, shared inspections are carried out on Sundays.
Whistleblower Khule is called in place through notification but is not allowed to be part of the inspection.
He was stopped by Prakash Dakhore and his men, who allegedly cut down trees in Convance with forest officials.
Also present were all RFOs during their term of logging going on but now posted elsewhere.
Khule brutally attacked right in front of forest officials but they thought they did not intervene.
Khule was allegedly beaten by a horde of 30 people including several women with sticks and stones.
He suffered injuries in the eyes, head and other body parts.
Arrested unconsciously with the alleged pre-plan attack, the other who had reached the escape.
Akola Deputy Conservator (DYCF) Arjuna Kr said, “The attack was the result of old hostility.
This is a matter of law and order and we do not have a role to play.
Because village maps show a damaged survey number, TLR cannot do the exercise.
We must Limiting our limits to find out whether logging is carried out in the forest area.
“The ACF HP Padgavahankar, who was an investigative officer and conducted an investigation into the forbidden logging last August, said,” Even when the TLR employee was conducting a survey, I stood.
First phase Land measurements have been carried out but the final demarcation has not been carried out and the work will continue tomorrow.
The attack on Khule was caused by personal hostility.
“However, Shriwas, who has worked in the Alegaon range for 14 years and exposes the logging of trees, said,” TLR exercise is eye waste complete.
In the last nine months, I have submitted at least 6 complaints about this problem.
Why it took a long time for forest officials to investigate this problem? All RFOs, are posted elsewhere and are part of the forbidden logging, have reached the place, basically to cover.
“Until the archiving of this report, the Chandni police station official had not registered firs against the attackers.
The fire Rahul Wagh said,” Because there are no health facilities in the city, we refer to Khule to Akola Medical College.
FIR will be registered depending on the injury.
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Whistleblower who opened the logging of 59 teak trees was attacked during inspection
