Case filed against GEER Foundation Director and two other officials

In a major development, Gandhinagar Police today registered First Information Report(FIR) against Gandhiangar based prestigious GEER foundation Director Bharat Pathak and two other Gujarat Forest department officials in connection with Range Forest Officer Y.C.Chauhan’s suicide.

Range Forest Officer(RFO) Y.C. Chauhan’s dead body was found at Khoarj near Gandhinagar yesterday in the evening. Chauhan had left a three=page letter and some documents with notary stamp before committing suicide. According to Chauhan’s relatives, the documents are enough to prove how Chauhan was tortured mentally by the officials of GEER Foundation , and how the officials are involved in corruption. The relatives today refused to receive body of Chauhan until the Police file FIR against three officials of GEER Foundation.

“Chauhan was working for last three years in GEER Foundation. He was given too much pain and lakhs of Rupees were coughed up from him. We have affidavits that prove these allegations,” one of the relatives said.

Eventually Gandhinagar Police has lodged complaint against three Forest department officials: Bharat Pathak, Director, GEER Foundation, M.K.Nanda, Assistant Director, and BFO Suman Gurjar.