Coimbatore: More than 250 frontline forest staff attached to the work of BOIKOT ANAMALII TIGER Reserve (ATR) on Friday to condemn the arrest of the Valparai K Jazayandran forest officers on charges of harassing three young men verbally, including the son of a judge sitting in Madras, a high court, In a drunken state of the forest break at Sirukundra near Valpaya.
While the forest-range officers were returned in judicial foster until October 7, members of the Forest Staff Association of Tamil Nadu gathered outside the district forest officials, the Pollachi division, on Friday morning and worked to register their protests of Jayachandran’s arrest.
A manikandan, president of the association, ATR branch, said he had shot a letter to the ATR field director that day, demanding to form a committee to investigate the incident.
“Dipois fake cases in Jayachandran.
The judicial power is misused against it.
To condemn the arrest of forest officers, more than 250 frontline staff, including forest guards, observers, foresters, guard guards and anti-hunting observers with ATR have boycotted work.
The fake case registered Against Ranger must be withdrawn, “Manikandan said.
He said the association executive committee meeting would be held in Salem on Saturday morning to deal with this problem.
Advocates Jayachandran has moved the guarantee application before the Valparai Munsif and Magistrate Court Judicial district on Thursday itself.
Many disappointment of front forest staff, guarantee petitions did not come to hear on Friday.
The petition is now expected to be heard on Saturday.
Meanwhile, 33 forest officers, who were undergoing training in Mettupalayam for the past two days, protested on Friday night when they knew about Jayachandran’s arrest.
They also raised the slogan and condemned the abuse of power against forest officers, which they said must be immediately released.
They threatened to take the state protest if the ranger was not released.
Valparai police have arrested Jayachandran on Thursday night after registering a case against him under Section 294b and 506 (1) of the Indian Criminal Code and Section 4 (1) (J) from the Prohibition of Tamil Nadu.
In the relevant incidence, M Nazir, retired assistant forest conservator, coimbatore, and former president of the Forest Staff Association of Tamil Nadu, had shot a letter to the head of Wildlife Warden and Head of the Head of Forest Conservator on the day, demanding justice to be done to the forest ranger.
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