Erode: Forest officials have arrested two people because they tried to smuggle sandalwood trees from the range of asanur forests in Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve here on Wednesday night.
One of the forest officials identified Defendant M and 28 who were 24 years old -Year-Old G Sivakumar, both residents of the village of Bangalowdhoddi near asanur.s Sivakumar, officers range forest asanur, said they were in a regular patrol in the str on Wednesday night when they saw both of them.
“They have fallen two sandalwood trees and cut it into small pieces to smuggle it.
Someone saw us, they tried to escape.
But we caught them after a brief pursuit.” The officer said they had confiscated two big sandalwood from the duo, then Manufactured in front of the Satyamangalam sub-court justice judge and nested in the central prison coimbatore under judicial resistance.
TNN.
2 Imprisoned due to logging of sandalwood trees
