Hi.
There was a hearing today on my complaint by the CEC in Delhi. I attended the same along with my lawyer from the Supreme Court. All the 6 members of the CEC were present. Karnataka forest department was represented by a CCF. When the hearing started, the CEC made it clear to the Forest department that they have violated the Forest Conservation Act, Wildlife Protection Act and various orders of the Hon'ble Supreme Court based on the documents and proof we had provided. They wanted to know what the karnataka forest department had to say?

To which the CCF said that they haven't seen a copy of the complaint !!!!!!!!!
We had couriered a copy of the complaint to Addtnl PCCF Wildlife.
Immediately we handed over another copy of the complaint and took an acknowledgement from the CCF.

CEC once again repeated that there is serious violation by KFD and asked them to file a reply soon and fixed the date for next hearing on 15th December 2009.

There was no representation/reply from the Director - Project Elephant who was the other party. It was sad to note that the director project elephant is just not interested in this matter.

More updates to come. Watch this space.