India, Dec. 24 -- The Uttarakhand high court on Wednesday issued notices to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), the Union government and the state government in connection with a petition alleging disproportionate assets of territorial forest officers and the reported disappearance of 7,375 forest boundary pillars in the Mussoorie Forest Division.

The division bench of justices Manoj Kumar Tiwari and Subash Upadhyay issued the notices on Wednesday after hearing a petition regarding the alarming disappearance of over 7,000 forest boundary pillars in the Mussoorie Forest Division.

Advocate Gaurav Kumar Bansal, appearing for the petitioner Naresh Chaudhary, said the systematic obliteration of these crucial demarcation markers has op...