Supreme Court Stays Jim Corbett National Park Director's Order Allowing Private Buses In Core Area Of Tiger Reserve

A bench of Chief Justice SA Bobde and Justices AS Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian issued notice to the Centre, Uttarakhand, National Tiger Conservation Authority, National Board of Wildlife and officials of Jim Corbett National Park and sought their responses.

The Court stayed the implementation of the office letter issued by the director of the national park on December 23.

The interim order was passed in a writ petition filed by Advocate Gaurav Kumar Bansal.

According to the petitioner, the decision of the Jim Corbett National Park was in violation of Wildlife Protection Act.   He alleged that forest officials of the State in order to provide wrongful gain to a private sector company has allowed them to ply their private buses within the core area of the Tiger reserve.

The petitioner contended that in the present case neither the forests officials has taken any approval from National Board for Wildlife nor have taken any advice from National Tiger Conservation Authority.

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