gurugram the haryana additional chief secretary forest has landed in controversy for allegedly putting undue pressure on forest officials to favour a big realty firm by approving in haste the felling of around 6000 trees in the aravalis in faridabad in separate complaints to the principal chief conservator of forests pccf p p bhojvaid four ifs officers vinod kumar vineet garg m l rajvanshi and ranjitha m h have levelled allegations against ias officer sunil gulati acs forest of putting pressure on them in the case of the realestate firmthe acs forest had issued letters in april and may directing the forest department to allow felling of trees on around 52 acres owned by the realty firm in the aravalis which were under ncz status to be decided in faridabad challenging these letters lieutenant general retired sarvadaman singh oberoi filed a petition before ngt alleging the government had given permit to the real estate firm to fell trees for a housing society in sarai khwaja village without obtaining clearance under provisions of the forest conservation act 1980 based on this ngt issued notices on june 19on june 20 pccf formed a committee to inspect the site of the land in question vinod kumar one of the complainants was member of the committee on june 21 the haryana additional attorney general asked the forest department to file a reply in the case before july 3 when the case was scheduled for hearing before ngt on june 23 the forest department issued the order to cut trees and all of them were cut within two days the complaint letters by the ifs officers highlights what happened in those few days and how the acs forest pressurised them to file a biased report in favour of a big realty firmvinod kumar conservator of forest wildlife gurgaon in his letter on june 23 to pccf alleged how gulati pressured them to enter the area coveted by the firm as nonforest sunil gulati acs forest rang me up on june 20 and started blasting me over the departments report on status of area notified under sections 4 5 of plpa said the letter adding the acs had directed officials on what could be considered forest or nonforest land on june 21 the acs forest called and asked me to urgently mark khasra details of the faridabad land belonging to a big realty firm on a survey of india toposheet next day he insisted i write that this land was not forest as per 1980 status which i declined furious he threatened me with dire consequences said vinod in his letterranjitha m h ifs officer the faridabad district forest officer in her letter dated july 5 wrote on june 23 i was subjected to relentless pressure by the acs in the discharge of my statutory functions she alleged gulati had put pressure on her to file an affidavit at the ngt in the aravali realty case ranjitha alleged gulati