GUWAHATI: Kaziranga-based environment activist Rohit Choudhury has filed an FIR with police on having to face "tremendous pressure" from a bit of people who are hostile to the ban on mining in Karbi Anglong hills on the southern fringe of Kaziranga National Park. Following a grievance lodged by Choudhury with the ministry of environment, wooded area and local weather trade against rampant stone extraction and quarrying activities in Karbi Anglong last yr, the ministry had directed the state executive on April 20 to take "immediate action" to prevent mining in those spaces.
In the FIR lodged at the Bokakhat police station in Golaghat district on Sunday, Choudhury mentioned, "I have come to know from various sources that rich and powerful persons involved in illegal mining around Kaziranga may try to cause physically harm me and my family members."
"A sense of fear is being created in the area by powerful vested interests involved in illegal mining to pressurize me to withdraw my ongoing cases pending before the Central Empowered Committee of Hon'ble Supreme Court of India and Hon'ble National Green Tribunal, New Delhi, which are related to the conservation & protection of Kaziranga National Park & Tiger Reserve," Choudhury stated in the FIR.
"I am not going to budge because of pressure, because if we don't stop mining and stone quarrying in Karbi Anglong, Kaziranga will be destroyed forever. All of us in Assam take so much pride in Kaziranga. It is also our duty to save this biodiversity landscape from being destroyed," Choudhury informed TOI.
In the FIR lodged at the Bokakhat police station in Golaghat district on Sunday, Choudhury mentioned, "I have come to know from various sources that rich and powerful persons involved in illegal mining around Kaziranga may try to cause physically harm me and my family members."
"A sense of fear is being created in the area by powerful vested interests involved in illegal mining to pressurize me to withdraw my ongoing cases pending before the Central Empowered Committee of Hon'ble Supreme Court of India and Hon'ble National Green Tribunal, New Delhi, which are related to the conservation & protection of Kaziranga National Park & Tiger Reserve," Choudhury stated in the FIR.
"I am not going to budge because of pressure, because if we don't stop mining and stone quarrying in Karbi Anglong, Kaziranga will be destroyed forever. All of us in Assam take so much pride in Kaziranga. It is also our duty to save this biodiversity landscape from being destroyed," Choudhury informed TOI.
Kaziranga mining ban crusader fears threat to life, files FIR
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