Panna Trail Leads To MLA Kin; Minister Blames Dacoit

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First published in Sanctuary Asia, Vol. 31 No. 7, July 2011

One of these cases trails back to a close relative of BJP MLA from Bundelkhand region.

According to Prayatna, an environmental action group that has been demanding CBI probe into the tiger deaths, forest officials had seized a jeep with Uttar Pradesh registration plates (UP 92/9434) in 2007. The jeep was reportedly trying to enter the Panna Tiger Reserve with armed passengers, forcefully.

The jeep was later released to one Babbu Singh, a close relative of a BJP MLA from Bundelkhand region, sources said. Read the full report here.

Source: P Naveen & Saji Thomas, DNA, Daily Bhaskar, Bhopal/Indore.

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