indore around 450 people of 40 villages who were allegedly engaged in tree felling in burhanpur forest to encroach upon government land for farming surrendered before burhanpur police and pledged to protect the jungleit was a notional surrender by around 450 people of around 40 villages who pledged not to ever engage in tree felling and encroaching upon the jungle and also took oath to save the environment and help security forces in this regard burhanpur sp rahul kumar lodha told toihe said that to approach these encroachers burhanpur police had approached eight locals who were serving in the police department across the state and sought their help in reaching out to these people and persuading them to surrender these eight policemen helped our teams coordinate with hundreds of people in 40 villages and eventually we succeeded as it was a notional surrender we seized their bows and arrows but no arrests were carried out in the matter he said most of the tribals who participated in tree felling have been brainwashed by some conspirators eyeing to grab forest land our efforts are to reach out to these people educate them about their rights and schemes meant for them and inform them about importance of the jungle along with consequences of taking the law in their hands the sp said tnn