Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 13: A Forest team from Jammu Forest Division seized about 55 qtls of firewood in two different incidents.
Official sources said that 40 qtls of Khair wood billets were seized from village Sunail. It said during the intervening night of April 12-13 Khair trees were illegally felled and converted into billets for further transportation of the same to different locations.
A team of Forest field staff led by Block Officer Chowki, Surjeet Singh, on direction of Range Officer Kalidhar – Pawan Sharma, along with the police party from Akhnoor Police Station inspected the spot and seized the illegally felled stuff and brought the same to the Forest Rest House Akhnoor for confiscation of the same.
In another incident, a team from Kalidhar Forest Range that was on routine duty to keep check on the smuggling of forest produce near Tung Bridge tried to intercept a Tata mobile 207 at about 2 am, coming from the side of Tung bridge but the driver of the vehicle didn’t stopped the vehicle. The staff on duty chased the smugglers but taking advantage of the night the driver of the vehicle fled away and in a jiffy he unloaded the khair wood billets/firewood in a deep gorge near village Sagani on Maira- Mandrian road. The khair wood billets/ firewood weighing approximately 15 qtls, was recovered and seized from the spot and brought to FRH Akhnoor for further proceedings.
Both the operations were closely supervised by Divisional Forest Officer Jammu Alok Kumar Maurya. He said that the forest offence report (FOR) has been registered for confiscation proceedings of the illegally felled stuff.
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