AR seizes illegal timbers worth Rs 55 lakh
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, June 06 2021:
Maram Battalion of Jwalamukhi Sector/ IGAR (E) seized illegal timbers on NH-2.In a release, PRO IGAR (S) informed that based on specific inputs regarding smuggling of contraband items from Imphal to Dimapur, a mobile check post was established on Saturday night near Tadubi.
The entire vehicles plying on NH-2 were checked during which drivers of two 16-wheeler trucks reacted nervously.
On further checking of load of the vehicles, 120 sawn timbers were detected and duly confiscated along with nabbing both the drivers.
The confiscated timbers worth Rs 55,00,000 were loaded in the two trucks (JH-02 W 4717 & JH-02 T 8596) driven respectively by Janardan Yadav (25) and Bisweswar Nayak (35) both of Jharkhand state.
The confiscated timbers along with truck and drivers were handed over to Mao Forest Range Office.