ORDER

[ 1 ] I.A.NOS.20650/2023 WITH I.A . NOS. 75033/23 & 199355/202 4

1. We are disturbed by certain events that have taken place during the pendency of the present proceedings.

2. This Court is seized of a suo moto action pertaining to the illegal constructions and rampant felling of trees in the Corbett Tiger Reserve. The Court has been passing orders from time to time.

3. Initially, the Uttrakhand High Court had directed that an investigation be carried out by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). Accordingly, CBI had conducted the investigation and an FIR also came to be filed.

4. The Court has been consistently monitoring the investigation and the CBI is submitting reports to Court. Parallely, the departmental proceedings are also under progress.

5. When the matter was listed before this Court on 08.09.2025, it was noticed that though the State Government had granted sanction in respect of the prosecution of all the officers except one, the Court had questioned the respondent(s)/State as to why special treatment was given to one officer. It appears that pursuant to the oral observations made by this Court on 08.09.2025, the sanction came to be granted on 16.09.2025.

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