Legal Awareness Programme on Forest Acts held in Udhagamandalam Udhagamandlam: The judiciary will always protect the environment of the Nilgiris, said the Chief Justice of the Madras High Court, M. Yousuf Iqbal here on Tuesday. He was presiding over a Legal Awareness Programme on Forest Acts for field level forest personnel organised by the Forest Department. Pointing out that illegal quarrying, which was totally destroying the ecology of the hill station, had been stopped by the High Court, he said that encroachments by private business people who have put up resorts on the traditional passage of elephants has also been taken up very seriously by the High Court in the name of Elephant Corridor case. Under the Tamil Nadu preservation of Private Forest Act indiscriminate felling of trees is regulated in the hill areas. Forest-related crimes are akin to,