Guwahati, Nov. 11 -- The Gauhati High Court has asked the Assam government to clarify whether two communications issued by the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) concerning retired Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer M.K. Yadava were examined before he was granted a third contractual extension as Special Chief Secretary (Forest).

A division bench of Justice Michael Zothankhuma and Justice Sanjeev Kumar Sharma, while hearing a Public Interest Litigation (PIL/57/2026) filed by environmental activist Rohit Choudhury, on Wednesday directed Additional Advocate General P.N. Goswami to obtain instructions on what action, if any, had been taken by the state government against Yadava pursuant to the communications ...