Guest guest Posted March 20, 2009 Report Share Posted March 20, 2009 http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/details.asp?id=mar2009/at05 ‘King’ MLA justifies hunting BOKAKHAT, March 19 – Unfazed by the cases lodged against him for threatening to kill the chief range officer of the Kaziranga National Park, Independent MLA Jiten Gogoi today claimed he was a ‘king’ and would hunt animals as royalty has always done so, reports PTI. “I am known as the king of this area and I will behave like a king. Earlier, kings went hunting and I will also hunt animals,” Gogoi told a local television channel. “Who are these forest people to complain against me? Are they bigger than me? We don’t kill animals nowadays, but I think this time I will hunt inside the park to show them that I am a king,” Gogoi told the channel. Gogoi and another independent MLA Kushal Deuri had on Tuesday allegedly entered the park, a world heritage site and home to the endangered one-horned rhino, for fishing, which was prohibited there. When prevented, Gogoi had threatened to kill Chief Range Officer Dharanidhar Boro with his AK-47 and assaulted forest employees. The police claimed that the two MLAs, who earlier belonged to the ULFA, were absconding. Cases have been registered against them under various sections of the IPC, Arms Act and Wildlife Protection Act. Kaziranga authorities and Boro have filed an FIR at the Kohora police outpost. The FIR alleged that the MLAs, Gogoi from Bokakhat and Deuri from Thowra, had threatened to kill Boro and his assistant Dilip Das when they prevented them from fishing. – PTI -- http://www.stopelephantpolo.com http://www.freewebs.com/azamsiddiqui Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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