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at BBCworldservice.com slash podcasts. Seven-year-old Akash Arang can barely walk anymore. Now his brother has to carry him to the village shop close to his home in eastern India.

Have you nay?

I tell her, woolen.

It was on this same short journey six months ago that Akash's life was to change forever.

I was just coming back from the shop. The forest guards were shouting rhinoceros.

Then the forest guards suddenly shot me.

I'm Justin Rolat with this week's assignment here on the BBC World Service.

We're in the jungles of Assam in one of India's greatest wildlife parks,

but it has a dark side.

With accusations it has shot innocent villagers,

forced others from their homes, and even resorted to torture.

This is the story they don't tell you on the glossy

wildlife documentaries and one the tourists never hear. The story of how in the

name of protecting animals, the park authorities stand accused

of making victims of people.

When a cash was rushed to hospital last year he cried for his mother convinced he was going to die.

A relative filmed on a mobile phone as she comforted him.

And despite dozens of operations, he will never fully recover.

Oh, that is heartbreaking.

Akash has just got up to walk after the interview and he's really just can only just limp

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