Apprise us of action taken against encroachers: Gauhati High Court

STAFF REPORTER

GUWAHATI: A division bench of the Gauhati High Court has asked the State government to apprise the Court of the action taken towards the eviction of encroachers from the Lumding Reserve Forest in the first week of November 2021, when it will hear the case. The bench comprises Justice N Kotiswar Singh and Justice Manish Choudhury.

The PIL (37/2021) sought direction from the Court to the State Government for taking necessary actions for clearance of encroached land, including the eviction, in the Lumding Reserve Forest.

The State Government, in its affidavit, acknowledged that around 1.10 hectares of land under the Lumding Reserve Forest got encroached. "…considering such encroachment, the State authorities have prepared a plan of eviction which (they) intend to implement in a phase-wise manner during October 2021 to February 2022.

"… the State Government is seized of the matter and proposing to take concrete actions. The action plan prepared by the State authority under the first phase of eviction for five days will be from October 2021 to November 2021. The 2nd phase for four days will be from November 2021 to December 2021. And the 3rd phase for five days will be conducted from January 2022 to February 2022," the Court order quoted the State government as saying.

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