While the chargesheet filed in the tree-felling case, the first in the 53 cases booked by the Forest dept., was rejected last week, the six arrested in an alleged illegal ivory possession case were let off after officials failed to comply with the mandatory procedural safeguards governing arrest and communication of grounds of arrest
Keralam Forest department begins damage-control exercise after legal goof-ups in two forest cases in Wayanad
While the chargesheet filed in the tree-felling case, the first in the 53 cases booked by the Forest dept., was rejected last week, the six arrested in an alleged illegal ivory possession case were let off after officials failed to comply with the mandatory procedural safeguards governing arrest and communication of grounds of arrest
Published: 25 September 2026
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