Gujarat forest officer suspended after train ran over rare Asiatic lion in Amreli | Ahmedabad News

After an Asiatic lion was run over by a passenger train near Lilia in Gujarat’s Amreli district late on the night of July 24, the forest department has suspended forest officer Mahesh Khavadiya of Lilia range for his alleged negligence leading to the casualty on the railway track. Aradhna Sahu, chief conservator of forests (CCF) of Junagadh wildlife circle, issued an order to suspend Khavadiya on July 25 for allegedly not alerting either the railway station master or Lilia forest officers to the “presence of wild animals near the track”.…