Gondia, The bison died after being hit by a train on the Hirdamali-Pindkepar Gongle railway track located on the Gondia-Chandrapur railway route. As soon as the information is received, ACF RR. The team of Satgir, RFO Praveen Sathavane, RO D. Dhurve and Goregaon Forest Department reached the spot and made a panchnama of the incident and started further investigation after post-mortem of the bison.
In this context, RO D. Dhurve of Goregaon Forest Department informed that 3 to 4 year old bison died after being cut off from the train near Pindkepar Gongle 10/26 pole number 15 on Gondia-Chandrapur railway route. As soon as the information was received, a panchnama of the incident was done.
It is noteworthy that even before this, on January 9, 2022, there has been an incident of death of a bison after being cut from the train at the same incident site. At the same time, in 2020 also a tiger has died in a similar incident in the same premises. It is being speculated that, while crossing the train tracks from Nagjira Sanctuary, the wildlife gets hit by the train and they die.
In view of these incidents, wire compound or other measures should be planned at both ends of the track by the Forest Department and Wildlife Department for the safety of wildlife. The incident was investigated by the Conservator of Forests Kulraj Singh, ACF R. R. Under the guidance of Satgir, RFO Praveen Sathawane, R.O. D Dhurve and his team have started.