India, March 12 -- Barely three days after Women's Day and the state government's felicitation of female officers, Anita Patil, the first woman director of Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP), is facing the heat. Following the Indian Forest Service officer's building of compound walls on the borders of SGNP and her drive to keep encroachers out, politicians have been demanding that she be transferred out.

While the SGNP authorities constructed a wall on the park's boundary on the orders of the Bombay high court, residents of housing society Abhinav Nagar claimed that she had encroached on 22,000 square feet of their land. They approached several MLAs and demanded that an FIR be registered against Patil, and on Tuesday, several legislators...