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Belagavi-based wildlife conservationist Giridhar Kulkarni has urged the State authorities to behaviour a high-level enquiry into the decease of 2 chaotic elephants successful Belagavi territory and to initiate ineligible enactment against officials if they are recovered to beryllium blameworthy of negligence oregon of dereliction of duty.
In a missive to the State government, Mr. Kulkarni has thanked Forest Minister Eshwar Khandre for ordering a probe into the electrocution of 2 chaotic elephants connected November 2 successful the Nagargali Forest Range, directing the Chief Wildlife Warden to analyse the incidental and find whether determination is immoderate dereliction of work by the section officials.
He, however, suspected that this incidental is akin to an earlier 1 successful which 5 tigers were being poisoned to decease successful Hoogyam Range successful MM Hills, arsenic an enactment of retaliation.
“In that case, the State authorities tried to hole accountability by suspending the DCF, ACF and RFO and taking enactment against different officers. The elephant deaths should besides beryllium taken arsenic earnestly arsenic it was done successful the earlier case. The incidental underscores the urgent request for rigorous probe and decisive enactment and hence, I telephone for the constitution of a high-level enquiry team. In this context, I taxable the pursuing petition to guarantee that the enquiry is conducted rigorously and successful afloat compliance with the binding judicial directions of the High Court,” helium said.
He has said that the pursuing urgent actions, including the constitution of a high-level enquiry committee, headed preferably by an serviceman of APCCF rank, to behaviour a thorough probe of the incident, verify compliance and urge corrective and preventive measures, pursuing the precedent acceptable successful the Hoogyam Range MM Hills tiger poisoning case.
“I petition that a high-level autarkic enquiry squad beryllium constituted, preferably headed by an serviceman of APCCF rank, with a absorption to personally sojourn Nagargali Range astatine the earliest for an autarkic tract inspection and inquiry. Such an enquiry is indispensable to guarantee an nonsubjective appraisal of crushed realities, verification of compliance with statutory and court-mandated duties and the initiation of contiguous corrective measures wherever required,” helium said.
His demands see a absorption to the Chief Conservator of Forests, Belagavi Circle, and the Deputy Conservator of Forests, Belagavi Division, to furnish verified and factual compliance reports regarding the directions issued by the High Court of Karnataka successful Writ Petition No 14029/2008 and Writ Petition No 16219/2024, including a elaborate relationship of the existent ground-level actions taken, on with supporting documentary evidence, if specified reports person already been submitted to the Chief Wildlife Garden and the APCCF (Project Elephant).
Immediate initiation of enactment against the ACF and RFO acrophobic pending the completion of a detailed, autarkic inquiry, instauration of a time-bound probe to hole work for the electrocution, submission of a broad compliance study connected the steps taken by the Department to afloat instrumentality each High Court directions successful Belagavi Division and different elephant-bearing areas and contiguous coordination with the Energy Department to rectify hazardous powerfulness lines, region amerciable electrification and destruct electrocution risks successful the Nagargali landscape.
Copies of the missive person been sent to Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (Wildlife) and Chief Wildlife Warden Prabhash Chandra Ray, Additional Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (Wildlife) Biswajit Mishra and the Additional Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (Project Elephant) Manoj Rajan.
