Forest guards manhandled by farmers in UP

Pilibhit (UP), March 22: A team of forest department was attacked by some people in the here when it tried to stop them from harvesting sugarcane crops on forest land.
SHO Surendra Kumar Singh said, “The incident occurred Tuesday night according to the complaint and the FIR was lodged today.”
According to a police complaint, it was reported Monday that some people were cutting sugarcane crop on the forest land in Majhara village and loading it in a tractor trolley.
Forest guards Abhishek and Sandeep Mandal, along with Bharat Kumar, a labourer, went to the spot on motorcycles and found some people cutting sugarcane crop, according to law, a state property, and loading it into a tractor trolley. “When they tried to stop them from doing so, the farmers started abusing the forest department staff and attacked them with the intention to kill,” the report read. (PTI)