Srinagar, Dec. 17 -- The Environmental Policy Group (EPG) has written to the Deputy Commissioner Anantnag, Mr Syeed Fakhrudin, seeking urgent intervention to stop ongoing and reported unauthorised construction activities within the Aru Valley and adjoining areas falling inside the Aru-Overa Wildlife Sanctuary, a notified eco-sensitive and no-construction zone. In the letter, the EPG Convenor, Faiz Bakshi has described Aru Valley as "a high-altitude and ecologically fragile landscape, notified as an eco-sensitive and no-construction zone, where any construction, road-laying or terrain alteration without prior statutory clearances amounts to a serious violation of environmental and wildlife protection laws." Bakshi has stated that EPG has r...