About two weeks after a Shiv Sena MP's car mowed down a deer in the tourism zone of the Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP), the forest department has put up notices at the gates leading to internal roads, with instructions for private vehicles to stay away from the route, a report said in this paper.

The impetus for the stricter rules is an SUV belonging to parliamentarian Rajendra Gavit killing a spotted deer that was crossing the road adjacent to Trimurti station inside SGNP on November 27. The SGNP authorities must be given enough teeth, so that they actually are able to stop the rich and powerful, those with connections from accessing these internal roads.