H.D. Kote: Forest Minister Anand Singh yesterday evening visited Kabini backwaters in Bandipur Tiger Reserve area where two Forest personnel, who were conducting an operation against illegal fishing drowned. The Minister later visited Brahmagiri tribal hamlet and spoke to the parents of deceased Forest Watcher Shivakumar.
Minister Anand Singh, accompanied with MLAs Anil Chikkamadu and H.P. Manjunath along with senior Forest officials, who arrived yesterday evening, set out in a boat from the Anti-Poaching Camp in Udbur coming under Antharasanthe Range in Nagarahole Reserve Forest and came to Gundre Range in Bandipur Tiger Reserve Forest and inspected the spot in Kabini backwaters. They then went to Brahmagiri tribal hamlet on the banks of Kabini backwaters and visited the house of deceased Shivakumar.
