Assam: One held for illegal timber trade in Margherita
Guwahati: The police and forest department at Margherita in Tinsukia, Assam apprehended a man suspected of being the ring leader of a timber smuggling network.
The suspect after an operation at the Tarani Reserve Forest area, Pengree, under Margherita.
The team during the operation apprehended Mridul Bora.
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Bora is accused of running an illicit timber trade on the Assam-Arunachal border.
Following his arrest, the police and forest department seized a sizable quantity of timber suspected to have been cut down illegally.
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An excavator used in the operation was asp sezied along with a truck.
He has been accused of supplying valuable and restricted timber to sawmills that he with his men chop down from forest areas.
Further investigation into the case is being carried out.