Tiger conservation: HC raps UP govt

Lucknow: The Allahabad high court on Wednesday sought an explanation from the principal secretaries of the forest and home departments on the delay in the constitution of the Tiger Protection Force in Uttar Pradesh. The court’s Lucknow bench also expressed serious concern over the construction of a broad-gauge railway line through the Dudhwa National Park. A bench of justices Vikram Nath and D.S. Tripathi asked the petitioner to make the Railways an opposite party in the petition. In a PIL filed by S.K. Mishra, the petitioner alleged that in 2009, `93 lakh was sanctioned, but till date the TPF had not been constituted.