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The Forest Department officials of Chikkamagaluru territory person registered 2 cases with respect to encroachment of 580 acres of wood country successful Balehonnur Range.
The officials filed the lawsuit against 3 radical from Kalasa connected charges of encroaching upon 450 acres of Halasur Reserved Forest country successful Kalasa taluk. The RFO of Balehonnur, successful his ailment registered connected October 24, stated that S.B. Shankar, S.B. Prabhakar and Sunitha of Kalasa encroached upon the wood country dispersed implicit survey fig 36 of Thanodi colony successful Kalasa taluk.
In different case, the officials booked six radical of Balehonnur connected charges of encroaching upon 130 acres of Bannur insignificant forest. The alleged encroachers are Mohamed Ifthikar Adil, Mohammed Iliyas, Abdul Vahid, Adul Munaf, Abdul Gafar and Mohammed Ibrahim. They encroached the onshore successful the survey numbers 9 of B. Kanabur village, 95, 96 and 97 of Bannur colony successful N.R. Pura taluk.
Absence of due records
Both cases were detected recently, but were not caller encroachments. E. Shivashankar, Deputy Conservator of Forests of Koppa Division, told The Hindu that the encroachment of Halasur wood successful Kalasa taluk came to airy during the verification of documents. “The onshore was notified arsenic wood agelong back. There was an exertion seeking a assistance of onshore for java cultivation. The applicants claimed to person been successful possession of the onshore good earlier it was declared forest. However, determination were nary due records to enactment the claim. Hence, we person booked the case,” helium said.
The DCF mentioned a erstwhile lawsuit of encroachment involving 10 acres of wood onshore successful N.R. Pura taluk. During the inquiry, it was recovered that the brothers of the household encroached upon a full of 130 acres. “We person booked the case. As per the procedure, we volition enquire into the encroachment and instrumentality up further action,” helium added.
The officials registered the cases nether assorted sections of the Karnataka Forest Act, 1963, and the Forest Conservation Act, 1980, connected charges of unauthorised occupancy, damaging the forest, defacing the bound marks, and utilizing the wood onshore for non-forest purposes, among others.
