Forest official hurt in clash during eviction drive

^{GUWAHATI: A forest official engaged in the massive eviction drive in the Amchang wildlife sanctuary sustained serious injury when an evicted person attacked him with a sharp weapon on Tuesday.}

The clash took place in the morning when the huge joint team of forest department and district administration resumed the drive to evict the illegal settlers.

As they started demolishing a house the owner had an altercation with the forest official who was busy with his assigned task defying the resistance. Suddenly, the owner of the house attacked the official with a sharp weapon.

He was rushed to the hospital and the owner was arrested.