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The arrest and detention of 5 persons implicit a week ago, for stopping the histrion felling adjacent the Kasu Brahmananda Reddy (KBR) National Park successful Hyderabad, has attracted the attraction of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC).
The Commission has taken suo motu cognizance of a media study astir the incidental and issued notices to the Telangana Director General of Police (DGP) and Hyderabad territory Collector, asking them to record a elaborate study successful 2 weeks’ time.
On the intervening nighttime betwixt May 12 & May 13, 2026, a person, R. Durga Prasad, was detained by the police, erstwhile helium was returning location aft being portion of a radical effort to halt histrion felling adjacent the park. Along with respective others, helium formed a quality concatenation astir the histrion being felled, and prevented the workers from hacking it.
Four much persons who went to the constabulary station, aft learning astir his detention, were detained too, and cases were slapped against them nether assorted sections of BNS for wrongful restraint, aggravated mischief causing harm to property, and transgression intimidation. They were fto disconnected towards the evening aft obtaining presumption bail. The Commission has observed that the contents of the quality study raises superior issues of usurpation of quality rights.
