Rejig of SIT raises many eyebrows

‘Changes made due to administrative and personal reasons’

The rejig of the special investigation team (SIT) probing the nearly ₹200 crore illegal tree felling case in the State has run into a fresh controversy with one forest official, who was reportedly instrumental in digging out the case in Wayanad, being shunted out of the team and another one assigned the work at a place of his choice. P. Dhaneshkumar, Divisional Forest Officer (Flying Squad Division, Kozhikode), who was earlier heading the investigation into the “felling and transport of government trees (reserved species and reserved trees)” from assigned patta land since March 11 this year, in Thrissur and Ernakulam has been removed from the post for “administrative reasons.”