The Forest department has issued orders suspending the Forest Range Officer on deputation to GHMC, fixing on him the blame for illegal tree felling on the stretch between Hitech City and KPHB on April 30 this year.
The department is reliably learnt to have recommended action against senior officials from GHMC and Cyberabad Traffic Police who allegedly passed instructions for the action, in which a large number of trees were illegally hacked down overnight. No reports have emerged about any action against them.
The FRO K. Chandrakanth Reddy, Manager (Urban Biodiversity) for two circles Chandanagar and RC Puram & Patancheruvu, is found to have been prima facie involved in felling of the 73 trees of Peltophorum species without any permissions as specified under the WALTA Act, the suspension orders said.
