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Tree branch cut much earlier: Bihar
K. Balchand
PATNA:
The Bihar Government on Friday sent a report to the External Affairs Ministry, categorically denying vandalism of the Bodhi tree in the Mahabodhi Temple at Bodh Gaya. It said the Government would take action against rumourmongers.
Home Secretary Afzal Amanullah, accompanied by Regional Director of the Agricultural Research Institute here, A.K. Singh, inspected the banyan tree following queries from the Prime Minister's Office.
Mr. Amanullah dictated the report to the Ministry from the temple. It included comments of Mr. Singh and priests of foreign monasteries in Bodh Gaya.
Mr. Amanullah showed photographs taken in 2001 to prove that the branch, which was allegedly chopped off recently, had been cut much earlier. He said samples were collected from the stump to establish through carbon dating the exact year in which it was axed.
The last recorded pruning of the tree was in 1977.
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