chennai appalled that hundreds of acres of forest land in the water spread area of the bhavanisagar dam have been illegally occupied by more than 1000 farmers and that the movement of wild animals including elephants in such areas were restricted by illegal solar electric fences raised by them the madras high court has directed the forest department to remove such fencing immediatelya division bench of justice m sathyanarayanan and justice g k ilanthiraiyan passed the direction while censuring the forest department and pwd officials concerned it prima facie appears from the status report that both forest department as well as the pwd are totally insensitive to the environment and ecological disaster happening right under their eyes and it is high time it is set right by effective monitoring and proper followup action the bench saidthe issue pertains to a pil moved by t murugavel an english professor seeking direction to the authorities to clear encroachments in the reserved forestwhen the plea came up for hearing on thursday the bench said that the court is also of the view that the encroachers are in water spread area and though they claim that they are carrying on agricultural operations for quite a long time no right has been created for them to put up solar fences to restrict the movement of wild animals that too in the area declared as reserve forest and as an elephant corridorthe court then noted that if the officials need police help they can approach the superintendent of police erode to remove the solar fences this apart the bench suo motu impleaded the collector sp and the revenue officer of erode as respondents for effective implementation and follow up and posted the plea to july 25 for further hearing