Yamunanagar: Forest Dept team seizes car carrying illegal khair wood
Yamunanagar, July 7
A Forest Department team caught a car which was allegedly carrying illegal khair wood in Yamunanagar district. On the complaint of Forest Guard Rajinder Singh a case was registered against Taj Mohammad, Aslam and Sharif of Chikan village and Majid, Rashid and Shamshad of Kansali village.
A case was registered under Sections 27, 29 of Wild Life (Protection) Act 1972, Sections 32, 33 of Indian Forest Act 1927, and Sections 121 (1), 132, 303, 324 (3) and 126 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), 2023 at the Pratap Nagar police station.
The Darpur Block incharge Anuj Kumar Rawal said they received a tip-off that Majid and Shamshad had cut four trees of khair wood illegally from the forest area of Chikan village on July 4. He said they also received information that they would soon sell this wood and were loading it onto a vehicle. Acting on the tips-off, police set up a barricade near Tibbi Bakkarwala village on Saturday afternoon.
“A car loaded with khair wood approached the naka on being asked to stop, the driver came out and pushed the police officials and managed to flee along with his vehicle. The car was being driven by Taj Mohammad and Majid was sitting next to him,” said Rawal. He said later the car loaded was recovered from Chikan village.
