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`Forest wealth being looted'

By Our Special Correspondent

Bangalore July 25. The Forest Minister, K.H. Ranganath, said in the Legislative Assembly on Thursday that he would look into the complaint of looting of forest wealth by smugglers in collusion with officials in Uttara Kannada District and make a statement. Raising the issue, Visveshwara Hegde (BJP) said an official who had tried to prevent smuggling of forest wealth was attacked. Mr. Hegde urged the Government to strengthen the staff and provide the employees with weapons. The department was recruiting staff at higher levels in Aranya Bhavan rather than at the field level, he said.

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