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| As forest employees continue to be in league with timber smugglers, deserving don't get timber | | | Shakeel A Khan
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Dec 25: The monitoring and supervision process of the smuggled timber seems to have gone awry since frequent reports of supply of illegal timber are pouring in from the various parts of the Kashmir valley. Sources told Early Times that during the intervening night of December 21 and 22 police recovered timber from the saw mill of one Bashir Ahmad Wani of Nadihal Bandipora. The timber, which was extracted from the Ajas forest range was meant for the public distribution.
Sources said some that some of the employees of the Forest Department are in nexus with the smugglers. They said that otherwise it would have not been possible for the accused to carry out his nefarious designs successfully. The people of the area are apprehensive that the matter may be hushed up as the criminals involved in this nexus have come up with the fake documents of allotments in favour of many people. People of the area say that the efforts of the police may go in vain if the culprits are not brought to the book.
"Police worked with dedication to seize the illegal lot of the timber. It is not easy for the law enforcing agencies to counter the dreaded smugglers but the police worked sincerely. But efforts on part of these smugglers are on so that this issue is passed on as a legal one," said a person from the area wishing not to be named.
In another such incident the forest protection force has claimed to have seized a huge amount of timber amounting to 800 square feet, from the house of a political worker in Wankora, Baramulla.
It has been learnt from the sources that forest department has launched a manhunt of this political worker and it is expected that he will be put behind the bars very soon. As per reports forest department had got information that a political activist had felled down a great number of trees as the administration was busy in election process. This particular person took assembly election as an opportunity to hide this illegally extracted timber in a house.
On getting the information, the forest protection force raided the house in Wankora and recovered 60 logs, amounting to 800 square feet of the timber but the person involved in this crime managed to give a slip.
An official of the Forest Department confirmed the seizure of timber from the house of a political activist and said that search for this person is on and very soon he will be put behind the bars.
The people of the valley believe that such incidents have become the order of the day and will continue to be so as long as the forest department does not display the sense responsibility. |
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