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A Goa Forest Department authoritative lodged a constabulary ailment connected Saturday (June 6, 2026) against State Minister Subhash Phal Desai successful transportation with proscription of ungraded from an robust ore dump successful a reserve country successful Kushavati district.
In the ailment to Quepem constabulary station, Kurdi Range Forest Officer Sonia B. Rane alleged that State stream navigation section Minister Phal Desai and his supporters prevented Forest Officials from taking enactment against this "illegal activity" successful a authorities wood country astatine Colomba colony successful Sanguem taluka.
The enactment began aft Forest Personnel noticed clearing of vegetation, excavation and proscription of ungraded from authorities wood onshore bearing Survey No. 105 of Colomba colony done deployment of 2 excavators and 4 trucks, the ailment stated.
However, contempt being instructed to bash truthful by the Forest Department officials, the excavator operators refused to halt enactment astatine the site, it said.
Mr.. Rane's ailment alleged that the operators said they had been instructed by Phal Desai to proceed the excavation and proscription work. Phal Desai aboriginal reached the tract and directed the operators to proceed the work, it said.
The ailment alleged trees were illegally uprooted during the activity, which amounted to usurpation of wood laws and authorities policies aimed astatine expanding greenish cover.
The ailment besides stated that video and photographic grounds of the incidental has been submitted to the constabulary for recognition of those progressive and for initiating enactment against them nether Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
Speaking connected the contented earlier successful the day, Phal Desai had claimed the worldly was being shifted wrong the aforesaid locality to facilitate the instauration of a sports crushed for section younker and not for commercialized sale.
There is nary crushed for the wood section to entity to this relocation exercise, Phal Desai claimed.
Police had said determination was a insignificant scuffle betwixt the 2 groups, but the concern was rapidly brought nether control.
