Forest Rights Act Recognizes Existing Rights, Supersedes Prior Court Orders: Allahabad HC Grants Relief To Tharu Community

The Allahabad High Court recently observed that the authorities cannot short-circuit the existing statutory rights of the forest dwellers by blindly relying on court orders issued before the enactment of the Forest Rights Act, 2006.A bench of Justice Shekhar B Saraf and Justice Abdhesh Kumar Chaudhary thus quashed a 2021 order passed by the District Level Committee, Lakhimpur, refusing...