Kannada superstar Yash’s upcoming film ‘Toxic’ has courted controversy after its makers were accused of illegally cutting 100 trees to erect a film set in Bengaluru. According to a report by PTI, Karnataka Forest Minister Eshwar Khandre directed officials concerned to take disciplinary action against those who permitted the felling of trees in a forest land. 

599 acres of reserve forest illegally handed over

Khandre also conducted a spot inspection of the site where the shooting of the movie 'Toxic', starring actor Yash, was held. In a note to the Additional Chief Secretary of the Department of Forest, Ecology and Environment, he said a total of 599 acres of reserve forest in Bengaluru's Peenya plantation 1 and plantation 2 is gazetted, which was illegally handed over to HMT (Hindustan Machine Tools) in the 1960s without de-notification.