Odisha elephant deaths: SIT to hunt extra time to submit report on cover-ups
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By Express News Service
BHUBANESWAR: The three-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) shaped by the Forest and Environment division to probe incidents of elephant deaths cover-ups in Athagarh Forest Division is anticipated to hunt extra time to furnish its report back to the federal government. “As investigation is still in progress, we may seek some more time to furnish the report,” mentioned one of many members of the group.
He mentioned the 2 rangers of the division booked on costs of suppression of data are nonetheless absconding. “The hunt is on to apprehend them and we are hopeful that they will be arrested soon,” the senior forest officer from the SIT mentioned and added that extra particulars concerning the deaths and burial of elephants within the division will come to gentle after their interrogation.
The State authorities had constituted the SIT involving forest and crime department officers to probe the elephant deaths cover-ups in Athagarh space after carcasses of three elephants, two male and a feminine, have been recovered by the Crime Branch STF on June 2 and three and forest division on June 14 in Baramba vary.
The SIT throughout their investigation in Baramba and Narasinghpur space exhumed one other jumbo carcass with the assistance of Athagarh forest officers on June 27 prompting the forest division to assign it with the investigation of all such incidents reported within the division within the current previous.
Regional Chief Conservator of Forests (Angul circle) M Yogajayanand, who’s heading the SIT, mentioned probe has been expedited to search out out if another forest official from the division has any involvement in suppression of the elephant deaths.
Recently, the SIT had additionally quizzed three DFOs — Sudarshan Gopinath Jadhav and his predecessors Sasmita Lenka and Sanjay Swain, to know if supervision was being executed correctly at their stage within the division to verify elephant deaths.
As it’s, three rangers from the division have already been positioned beneath suspension within the division for suppressing information concerning elephant deaths since November final 12 months, whereas a lot of individuals together with three watchers and a forest guard have additionally been arrested in reference to the restoration of carcasses in Baramba vary.
BHUBANESWAR: The three-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) shaped by the Forest and Environment division to probe incidents of elephant deaths cover-ups in Athagarh Forest Division is anticipated to hunt extra time to furnish its report back to the federal government. “As investigation is still in progress, we may seek some more time to furnish the report,” mentioned one of many members of the group.
He mentioned the 2 rangers of the division booked on costs of suppression of data are nonetheless absconding. “The hunt is on to apprehend them and we are hopeful that they will be arrested soon,” the senior forest officer from the SIT mentioned and added that extra particulars concerning the deaths and burial of elephants within the division will come to gentle after their interrogation.
The State authorities had constituted the SIT involving forest and crime department officers to probe the elephant deaths cover-ups in Athagarh space after carcasses of three elephants, two male and a feminine, have been recovered by the Crime Branch STF on June 2 and three and forest division on June 14 in Baramba vary.
The SIT throughout their investigation in Baramba and Narasinghpur space exhumed one other jumbo carcass with the assistance of Athagarh forest officers on June 27 prompting the forest division to assign it with the investigation of all such incidents reported within the division within the current previous.
Regional Chief Conservator of Forests (Angul circle) M Yogajayanand, who’s heading the SIT, mentioned probe has been expedited to search out out if another forest official from the division has any involvement in suppression of the elephant deaths.
Recently, the SIT had additionally quizzed three DFOs — Sudarshan Gopinath Jadhav and his predecessors Sasmita Lenka and Sanjay Swain, to know if supervision was being executed correctly at their stage within the division to verify elephant deaths.
As it’s, three rangers from the division have already been positioned beneath suspension within the division for suppressing information concerning elephant deaths since November final 12 months, whereas a lot of individuals together with three watchers and a forest guard have additionally been arrested in reference to the restoration of carcasses in Baramba vary.
