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Civil servants to be prosecuted

Patna: The Bihar Government has decided to lodge criminal cases against three top civil servants and a Minister in the previous RJD Government for alleged illegal transfer of land of a wildlife sanctuary to a reservoir in Kaimur district. Chief Minister Nitish Kumar gave the go-ahead to the forest and environment department to prosecute all those involved in the land transfer, official sources said.

While the former Minister is Jagdanand Singh, the civil servants are former Chief Secretary G S Kang, energy department commissioner V Jaishankar, who was a secretary in the water resources department, and the current secretary in the department H C Sirohi, who was then a secretary in the forest and environment department.

Principal Chief Wildlife Warden M J Mishra said Bihar Forest and Environment Department was going to file criminal cases against the IAS officials, former RJD Minister, besides half a dozen engineers for transfering 5.44 acres of Kaimur wildlife sanctuary to Durgawati reservoir project.

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