MP Tourism Minister Usha Thakur (Source: Facebook/Usha Thakur)
The Madhya Pradesh forest department has transferred the deputy forest ranger who filed a criminal complaint against the state tourism minister, Usha Thakur from the Bagraunda forest post in Mhow to Chapria in Manpur.
The officer, identified as Ram Suresh Babu, in his complaint to the police on January 12 had alleged that Usha Thakur and her supporters had forcibly taken away a heavy-duty earth extraction JCB machine and a tractor-trolley on January 11 night that were seized during illegal stone and soil mining in a reserved forest area.
Ram Suresh Babu s complaint against Usha Thakur and her supporters was not registered by the police but the forest minister was forced to constitute a high-level inquiry headed by a Principal Chief Conservator of Forest level officer as the opposition raised the issue.