Bantwal, May 10: The Forest Department has refuted the news of the raid on Kalladka Sri Ram Highschool, which has been covered extensively by the visual media on Friday.
Clarifying the same, Forest Department official Padmanabha Gowda said that on the request of Sri Ram Vidya Kendra, the team had come to the school to take away the animals, which have been nursed and taken care by the school management.
He said that several injured animals have been brought to the school and taken care by the management and once the animals are fit, the management hands them over to the Department.
However, on Friday, a section of visual media mistook the same to be a raid and falsely reported the same.
He said that though the officials were supposed to take away the animals on Thursday, due to lack of proper vehicles, they had come to the school on Friday.
Officials shift wild animals from Sri Rama Vidya Kendra to Pilikula
The school is run by RSS leader Kalladka Prabhakar Bhat.
A student of the school said on condition of anonymity that a few wild animals like monkeys, deers, hares, porcupines, python and peacocks were being fostered in the Vidya Kendra without any permission from the forest department.
The officials seized all the wild animals from the school and shifted to Dr Shivaram Karanth Biological Park at Pilikula Nisargadhama, TV channels claimed.
The raid comes two days after the announcement of Karnataka assembly poll results, wherein Mr Bhat's staunch opponent B Ramanath Rai reelected as Bantwal MLA.
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