THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Government will conduct a detailed probe into the illegal tree felling at Muttil in Wayanad.
The decision was taken at a high-level meeting convened by forests and wildlife minister A K Saseendran here on Monday.
The probe will be conducted by the principal chief conservator of forests (vigilance).
The mass felling of rosewood trees worth crores of rupees had taken place by misinterpreting a government order that was issued on October 24, 2020, which allowed farmers to fell the trees which they had planted in land assigned to them under the Kerala Land Assignment Rules, 1964, and those which have naturally grown in the land.