Port Blair, June 16: On 14 June 2021 night, an information received in Police Station Ograbraj about storage of illegal Hand Sawn Timber in a house of Port Mout area, where immediately police team reached and conducted a search. During the search the team found about 0.466 cbm (29 pieces) of hand sawn timber (Padauk).
The matter was immediately intimated to Forest Range office Tushnabad, upon which the forest team reached the spot and inquired about valid documents bill with the accused Mr. Harjeet Singh but as he failed to produce any valid documents for the timber. He was arrested for violation of the provisions of Indian Forest Act, 1927 and later released on bail.
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