G R Mohan, a Bangalore-based advocate, has filed a PIL petition before the Karnataka High Court, seeking direction to the Centre to stop movement of heavy trucks through the Bandipur National Park, which is also a tiger reserve housing 85 tigers.
The petitioners said that in the recent past over 100 animals, including six elephants, two tigers, two leopards and over 20 spotted deer, had been killed on a 17-km stretch of National Highway 212 running through the national park by speeding vehicles.
Mohan said there was already a ban on vehicle movement between 8 pm and 6 am, but the order was violated by truck drivers who used the Mysore route to go to Kerala and Tamil Nadu. They had now started taking a short-cut route through the national park. The Forest Department also failed to check illegal movement of vehicles, he added.
Mohan also alleged that the NHAI did not lay proper roads and barricades to prevent the deaths of endangered species.
The matter is listed for Wednesday before the Division Bench of Chief Justice Vikramjit Sen and Justice B V Nagarathna.
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