Dimapur, July 22 (MExN): The Tenyimi Peoples’ Organization (TPO) appeals to the Governor of Nagaland to intervene and “take serious cognizance and pass appropriate order/directions” before it is too late and “to direct a final hearing at the earliest and evict all such illegal encroachers” from Intangki National Park. The TPO issued a copy of a letter to the media, addressed to the governor seeking his attention to the Intangki imbroglio.
The TPO said the TPO and the ‘original land donor village’ Beisumpui “freely donated” the Intangki National Park in 1923 to the then Governor in-Council of the British government, “absolutely wanting nothing for ourselves but seriously concerned with the present predicament adversely affecting the sensitive ecology and its biodiversity in the above mentioned national park.”
The TPO expressed displeasure at the “highly condemnable, questionable and unacceptable dereliction of duty and responsibility by the hon’ble Gauhati High Court, Kohima Bench, Nagaland” failing to protect the Intangki National Park of 20,202 hectares in Nagaland from encroachers and poachers.
The Tenyimi people of the region are greatly disturbed by the “inordinate delay perpetrated” by “this hon’ble court” in dealing with the delicate and urgent issue, the TPO stated.
The TPO pointed to the ‘ grievous harm and irreversible injury that this action continues to be unleashed in the wanton and systematic destruction caused by the illegal encroachers under the license granted by this court in the form of the present repeated illegal status quo orders.’
If the status quo orders are to be illegally sustained in the present form, the organization stated, they would cause nothing short of ‘mass destruction of one of the region's most important areas of biodiversity.’
The TPO stated that the criminal trespassers are “unabatedly continuing with their acts of wanton felling of precious trees and timber smuggling, logging operations, hoarding and random killing of wildlife, attempting to grab the fertile lands at the national park for settlement, spontaneous road constructions and other illegal developmental activities with machineries like JCBs, bulldozers, etc without any hindrance under the protection of the aforesaid High Court status quo and interim orders.”
“We humbly submit that in the interest of justice and fairness and in the light of numerous judgements and orders of the hon'ble Supreme Court of India in dealing with illegal encroachers in protected national park/forest, to take serious cognizance and pass appropriate order/directions to further safeguard our wildlife and the priceless assets of pristine nature preserved for millions of years within its wonderful eco-system for the larger interest of our people in the state in particular and of human kind in general before it is too late, to direct a final hearing at the earliest and evict all such illegal encroachers forthwith in accordance with the due process of law.”
The TPO said the TPO and the ‘original land donor village’ Beisumpui “freely donated” the Intangki National Park in 1923 to the then Governor in-Council of the British government, “absolutely wanting nothing for ourselves but seriously concerned with the present predicament adversely affecting the sensitive ecology and its biodiversity in the above mentioned national park.”
The TPO expressed displeasure at the “highly condemnable, questionable and unacceptable dereliction of duty and responsibility by the hon’ble Gauhati High Court, Kohima Bench, Nagaland” failing to protect the Intangki National Park of 20,202 hectares in Nagaland from encroachers and poachers.
The Tenyimi people of the region are greatly disturbed by the “inordinate delay perpetrated” by “this hon’ble court” in dealing with the delicate and urgent issue, the TPO stated.
The TPO pointed to the ‘ grievous harm and irreversible injury that this action continues to be unleashed in the wanton and systematic destruction caused by the illegal encroachers under the license granted by this court in the form of the present repeated illegal status quo orders.’
If the status quo orders are to be illegally sustained in the present form, the organization stated, they would cause nothing short of ‘mass destruction of one of the region's most important areas of biodiversity.’
The TPO stated that the criminal trespassers are “unabatedly continuing with their acts of wanton felling of precious trees and timber smuggling, logging operations, hoarding and random killing of wildlife, attempting to grab the fertile lands at the national park for settlement, spontaneous road constructions and other illegal developmental activities with machineries like JCBs, bulldozers, etc without any hindrance under the protection of the aforesaid High Court status quo and interim orders.”
“We humbly submit that in the interest of justice and fairness and in the light of numerous judgements and orders of the hon'ble Supreme Court of India in dealing with illegal encroachers in protected national park/forest, to take serious cognizance and pass appropriate order/directions to further safeguard our wildlife and the priceless assets of pristine nature preserved for millions of years within its wonderful eco-system for the larger interest of our people in the state in particular and of human kind in general before it is too late, to direct a final hearing at the earliest and evict all such illegal encroachers forthwith in accordance with the due process of law.”
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