AGARTALA: Tripura govt suspended the state’s principal chief conservator of forests (wildlife and ecotourism) Prabin Lal Agrawal on Saturday amidst an issue surrounding the naming of a zoo lion and lioness as Akbar and Sita, respectively. The suspension adopted a grievance from VHP to Calcutta excessive courtroom, alleging that the names damage non secular sentiments, reported.The lion and lioness had been relocated to North Bengal Wild Animals Park in Siliguri from Tripura’s Sepahijala zoo on Feb 12, as a part of an animal trade programme.Agrawal, a 1994-batch IFS officer, was then serving as Tripura’s chief wildlife warden. He recorded the names of the lion couple as Akbar and Sita within the dispatch register whereas sending them to Siliguri. Names got by Tripura zoo authorities: Bengal forest division This sparked public outrage, resulting in a PIL filed by VHP’s Bengal unit in Jalpaiguri circuit bench of Calcutta HC on Feb 21. The HC bench ordered altering the names of the lion pair.Nevertheless, the Bengal forest division clarified that the names got by Tripura, and any modification was the duty of Tripura zoo authorities. VHP then filed a writ petition in HC, claiming that the names had been irrational and amounted to blasphemy.”The court expressed its displeasure over the naming…,” mentioned advocate Subhankar Dutta, representing VHP, including that the matter could be taken up by an everyday bench of HC shortly.In response, Tripura govt sought clarification from Agrawal, who denied naming the lion couple as Sita and Akbar. Investigation revealed that the names had been certainly given by Tripura wildlife officers through the animal trade programme, resulting in Agrawal’s suspension.
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