GURUGRAM: A forest guard was allegedly thrashed by a group of men in Satnali village of Mahendergarh district on Friday. An FIR was registered on Saturday against two villagers.
According to police, the guard, Ved Pal, was on his regular inspection when he saw that some men had chopped down trees in the area and were putting them into their vehicle. “I took a picture of them as evidence but they came towards me carrying sticks and thrashed me,” he said.
A case was lodged at the Satnali police station under IPC sections 186 (obstructing public servant in discharge of public functions), 332 (voluntarily causes hurt to any person being a public servant in the discharge of his duty), 34 (common intentions), 341 (wrongful restraint), 353 (assault) and 506 (criminal intimidation). No non-forest activity is permitted in the area as it falls under sections 4 and 5 of the Punjab Land Protection Act (PLPA), 1900.
“This is the second incident when a department personnel was assaulted by those involved in illegal activities in the forest area,” said Vipin Kumar Singh, divisional forest officer, Mahendergarh.