Overview
- The court agreed to hear environmentalist Atul Sati’s intervention and posted the matter for November 17.
- A Supreme Court interim order issued on October 22, 2018 has kept the High Court–directed federal investigation on hold for seven years.
- CBI case filings state that a preliminary inquiry uncovered irregularities, possible cover‑ups, and violations of NTCA protocols by Uttarakhand forest officials.
- Sati alleges former chief wildlife warden D S Khati misled the bench by withholding findings from WII, NTCA, and the Jaya Raj inquiry that indicated organized poaching and official culpability.
- Forensic and enforcement records from 2015–2016 linked multiple tiger skins and bones to Corbett and pointed to a cross‑border trafficking network spanning Nepal and Indian states.