Bhadradri forest officials attacked by farmers
5 years, 6 months ago

Bhadradri forest officials attacked by farmers

Deccan Chronicle  

Kothagudem: Five forest officials were attacked by farmers doing shifting or podu cultivation in the forest at Gundalapadu, Mulakalapally mandal, on Tuesday. Forest beat officer Bhukya Bhaskar and section officer K. Neelamaiah were badly injured, while forest beat officer N. Padma and two forest guards suffered minor injuries. A complaint was filed on Monday against TRS legislator Vanama Venkateswara Rao for obstructing forest officials who are carrying out tree plantation on land cultivated by the farmers, who have no rights to the land. Kothagudem district superintendent of police Sunil Dutt convened a joint meeting of police and forest officials on Tuesday and stressed the need for coordination between the two departments.

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TH Impact: Forest Minister orders inquiry into alleged illegal tree cutting in Kodagu
5 months ago

TH Impact: Forest Minister orders inquiry into alleged illegal tree cutting in Kodagu

The Hindu  

Following a report in The Hindu about the Forest Department allegedly granting permission to cut down 1,118 trees in a coffee plantation in Kodagu district, Forest Minister Eshwar Khandre has ordered a chief conservator of forests to probe the matter. On August 6, The Hindu published an article titled ‘Forest Department Approves Cutting of 1,118 Trees in Kodagu Plantation; Environmentalists …

Take strict action against accused for attacking forest department staff in Palnadu: Pawan Kalyan
5 months, 1 week ago

Take strict action against accused for attacking forest department staff in Palnadu: Pawan Kalyan

Deccan Chronicle  

VIJAYAWADA: Deputy Chief Minister Pawan Kalyan, has directed forest department officials to take strict action against the individuals who attacked forest department staff within the Vijayapuri South Range forest jurisdiction. On Tuesday, Pawan spoke with the Palnadu district collector and superintendent of police over the phone, inquiring about the details of the attack and ordering strict action against the accused. …

Two forest officials attacked by mob in in Andhra's Palnadu
5 months, 1 week ago

Two forest officials attacked by mob in in Andhra's Palnadu

New Indian Express  

GUNTUR: Two forest department officials were injured in an attack by relatives of a smuggler in Veldurthi mandal, Palnadu district, on Monday. In response, Palnadu district authorities have heightened surveillance in the forest areas to curb illegal animal poaching. Spanning 1.5 lakh hectares, the district’s forest cover has seen previous smuggling activities, including a recent case involving six individuals smuggling …

Telangana | Swift action by forest squad thwarts poaching bid
9 months ago

Telangana | Swift action by forest squad thwarts poaching bid

The Hindu  

A six-member inter-State poachers’ gang was busted by an alert Forest squad on Saturday midnight in Kanakagiri reserve forests in Thallada range of Khammam district. The swift action by the forest squad helped foil a poaching bid and led to the arrest of all the six members of the gang and seizure of a sniper rifle, a knife, an axe …

Telangana: Policemen, forest officials chased, assaulted by villagers in Khammam | VIDEO
9 months, 1 week ago

Telangana: Policemen, forest officials chased, assaulted by villagers in Khammam | VIDEO

India TV News  

Video clips of ugly fighting between two groups of villagers from Telangana's Khammam district went viral on social media. The clips showed a few villagers attacking policemen and forest officials as well as they tried to resolve the dispute between the fighting groups. The police on Sunday said that a fight broke out between two groups of residents of Buggapadu …

Forest officials in Telangana warned against negligence of duty
11 months, 3 weeks ago

Forest officials in Telangana warned against negligence of duty

The Hindu  

Principal Chief Conservator of Forests and Head of the Forest Force R. M. Dobriyal, through a videoconference on Saturday, warned forest officials of strict action in the event of negligence of their duty. Referring to the death of two tigers in Kagaznagar, Mr. Dobriyal said the incident could have been avoided at a time when the corridor area of Kawal …

Illegal tree felling in Belur: Forest Department suspends four officials, recommends action against IFoS officer
1 year ago

Illegal tree felling in Belur: Forest Department suspends four officials, recommends action against IFoS officer

The Hindu  

The Forest Department has suspended four officers of Hassan district and recommended disciplinary action against the Deputy Conservator of Forests on charges of dereliction of duty following the illegal felling of 126 trees at Nandagodanahalli in Belur taluk. Further, the Forest Department recommended the Department of Personnel and Administrative Reforms take action against D. Mohan Kumar, DCF of Hassan, as …

8 forest dept officials attacked by villagers in Karnataka
1 year, 3 months ago

8 forest dept officials attacked by villagers in Karnataka

Hindustan Times  

Belagavi A total of 16 vehicles were damaged by the villagers. Eight personnel of the state forest department, including the range forest officer were allegedly attacked by villagers, who were opposing a survey conducted by the department of the encroached forest land in Belagavi district, officials said on Monday. According to the officials, the villagers of the Gokak taluk attacked …

Cops who went to Bihar village for inquiry attacked by residents, 9 injured
1 year, 9 months ago

Cops who went to Bihar village for inquiry attacked by residents, 9 injured

Hindustan Times  

BHAGALPUR: A police team that went to village in Bihar’s Naugachhia was thrashed and chased away by villagers who alleged that the team misbehaved with women and children. Police said nine personnel including two women constables were injured in the attack by the villagers and are undergoing treatment at a Naugachhia hospital. The Bihar police said nine personnel including two …

Forest staff demands security before resuming field work
2 years, 1 month ago

Forest staff demands security before resuming field work

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Pained over losing a colleague and attacks on others going unabated, Telangana forest service officers have decided to take a tough stand and demanded that the state government take immediate steps, including providing arms to frontline staff to prevent further attacks. M. Raja Ramana Reddy, general secretary of State Forest Service Officers Association, told Deccan Chronicle that a delegation …

Tribals hack forest officer to death over podu land issue
2 years, 1 month ago

Tribals hack forest officer to death over podu land issue

Deccan Chronicle  

KOTHAGUDEM: The ongoing conflict over podu lands took a violent turn on Tuesday, with tribals of the Gothikoya community hacking a forest range officer to death in Bendalampadu of Kothagudem district. Srinivasa Rao, and section officer Rama Rao were inspecting saplings planted by the forest department in Chandrugonda mandal. Rama Rao said that tribals were spotted cutting down saplings planted …

Forest staff face double whammy in safeguarding land
2 years, 1 month ago

Forest staff face double whammy in safeguarding land

Deccan Chronicle  

KHAMMAM: Officials of the forest department claimed immense pressure in undertaking the podu land survey, with MLAs, politicians and farmers considering forest officials their ‘enemies’ and the police, revenue officials and the administration not cooperating in protecting forest land. In an incident on July 8 this year, two women forest staff and eight Adivasi women were injured in a clash …

Stopped tribals from grabbing land: TS Forest dept.
2 years, 6 months ago

Stopped tribals from grabbing land: TS Forest dept.

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: A day after forest department staff and tribals clashed over the podu land issue in Mancherial district, the department has clarified that it is only trying to stop encroachment of the Kawal Tiger Reserve. Eight adivasi women and two women forest staff were injured in clashes at Koya Poshaguda in Dandepally mandal of Mancherial district on Friday. As per …

Women staff worried as forest wing gears up for Haritha Haram in podu lands
2 years, 9 months ago

Women staff worried as forest wing gears up for Haritha Haram in podu lands

Deccan Chronicle  

Adilabad: Women employees in the forest department working in the field face a threat to their lives while the department gears up to plant trees under Haritha Haram on disputed podu lands. There are allegations that senior officers were pushing women employees to the field whenever villagers staged a protest against plantations on podu or disputed lands. Many women have …

Locals thrash forest officials fearing takeover of podu land
3 years, 8 months ago

Locals thrash forest officials fearing takeover of podu land

Deccan Chronicle  

KOTHAGUDEM: Three forest beat officers were thrashed and one of them tied to a tree in D-Kothuru forest in the limits of Chintaguppa village of Dummugudem mandal in Bhadradri district on Monday. According to available details, the officers Sodi Rajesh, Hussain and Vijaya went to Compartment-46 in D-Kothuru forest beat area to level the 27-hectare forest land to raise seedlings …

Attacks on foresters increase across the country during lockdown
4 years, 2 months ago

Attacks on foresters increase across the country during lockdown

The Hindu  

“E very year several green soldiers make supreme sacrifices in the line of duty, while several others become disabled for life, thus impacting their ability to provide a sustained future for their family members.… India is not safe country for forest officials. These attacks have had a chilling impact on the morale of the Forest Department and it has become …

Forest Department personnel injured in fresh attack in Telangana
5 years, 6 months ago

Forest Department personnel injured in fresh attack in Telangana

India TV News  

Two Forest Department employees sustained injuries in an attack allegedly by a group of tribals in a village in Telangana, days after the brutal assault of a woman forest officer that triggered an outrage. Police said the two Forest personnel came under attack at Timmampet village in Bhadradri-Kothagudem district Monday night after they objected to ploughing of forest lands. The …

After TRS leader arrested for assaulting forest officer, his brother and TRS MLA Koneru Konappa caught teaching villagers to blame the officers
5 years, 6 months ago

After TRS leader arrested for assaulting forest officer, his brother and TRS MLA Koneru Konappa caught teaching villagers to blame the officers

Op India  

A video where TRS leader Koneru Krishna is seen to lead a mob assaulting a female forest officer on duty in Komaram Bheem Asifabad district in Telangana had surfaced yesterday. Now, in another shocking video, Krishna’s brother, who is also a TRS MLA, Koneru Konappa was caught trying to brainwash the villagers in a bid to twist the sequence of …

'Even animals are not thrashed this way' says Telangana forest official attacked by mob, demands 'strong action' against accused
5 years, 6 months ago

'Even animals are not thrashed this way' says Telangana forest official attacked by mob, demands 'strong action' against accused

Firstpost  

Video footage of the attack showed forest official C Anitha climbing a tractor to escape and Koneru Krishna Rao and other villagers attacking the vehicle. Hyderabad: “Even animals are not thrashed this way,” said C Anitha, the Telangana forest department official, a day after she was attacked by some people, allegedly led by the brother of a ruling Telangana Rashtra …

Watch: Woman forest ranger attacked by TRS workers
5 years, 6 months ago

Watch: Woman forest ranger attacked by TRS workers

India Today  

A police team and forest guards were allegedly attacked by Telangana Rashtra Samithi workers in Sirpur Kagaznagar block of Komaram Bheem Asifabad district, during a tree plantation drive. During the attack in Telangana, a woman forest ranger sustained injuries and alleged that the attack was led by the brother of local TRS MLA Koneru Konappa. TRS workers have beaten up …

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