Forest officials arrest one in Arunachal
Itanagar: Forest officials in Arunachal Pradesh have arrested a person for burning and clearing approximately one hectare of forest land under Drupong Reserve Forest near here for jhumming. A team of officials from Banderdewa forest beat office had arrested one Shamal Kanti Chakma of Hollongi-Kokila villageon Friday, officials said here on Saturday. Chakma has been arrested under Section 25 (d) and (f) of the Assam Forest Regulation Act, 1891, which attracts three years’ imprisonment or a fine of Rs 25000 or both. He has been handed over to the Balijan police station for further investigation, Banderdewa DFO Tasso Sira has informed. The forest department has launched intensive patrolling to check forest fires.(PTI)
Man killed in elephant attack
Agartala: A tribal was killed in an attack by a herd of wild elephants in Tripura’s Khowai district, about 70 km from here, official sources said on Saturday. The 35-year-old man was seiously injured by the elephants when he was collecting firewood in the jungled in Gadaibari village on Thursday, Forest Ranger of Kalyanpur Forest division, Lal Mohan Das told reporters. Villagers and forest department officials immediately rushed him to Khowai hospital, from where he was shifted to Agartala Government Medical College where he succumbed to his injuries yesterday. Forest department has deployed guards in the area so that the herd, which has also damaged standing ctops, does not sneak into the nearby villages from there. Forest officials said the pachyderms were entering human habitation in search food as their habitats were damaged due to depletion of forests. (PTI)
Two-year-old boy falls into 30 feet deep borewell
Guwahati: A two-year-old boy fell into an over 30 feet deep borewell pipe in the Hatigarh Chariali area of Guwahati on Saturday, Fire Brigade sources said. The child identified as Afirul Islam was playing in a house construction site when he slipped and fell into the well, the sources said. Operations were on to rescue the child by digging by the side of the pipe by the Fire brigade service and police, they said. Oxygen was also being supplied through a pipe into the hole for the child to breathe, the sources said. Afirul’s father said that he had repeatedly asked the owner of the construction site to provide a cover for the borewell. (PTI)