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Body of a tribal woman was found in Chowpahari forest at Illambazar in Birbhum district on Monday,police sources said.

Body of tribal woman found in Birbhum forest

Suri:Body of a tribal woman was found in Chowpahari forest at Illambazar in Birbhum district on Monday,police sources said. The locals found the body of the woman,in her 30s,in a pool of blood lying on the village road. The face of the woman was battered,sources said. A senior police officer said prima facie it was a case of murder but they could not reach any conclusion before the the post-mortem examination report.

Logs seized from tea garden

Jalpaiguri:Logs worth Rs 20 lakh were seized on Monday during a raid in a tea garden in Mal area of Jalpaiguri district. Acting on a tip-off,the police and forest officials raided an area in Sonali Tea Garden and found the logs of teak and saal buried under the soil and hidden in a two-storey abandoned house, DFO Dharmadeb Roy said. The logs were dug out of the soil and the police are on the lookout of the owner of the abandoned building,he said. The raid jointly conducted by the police and forest officials continued from 8 am to 11 am. Security forces also seized the logs that were snatched away from forest guards on August 25 by teak mafia,leaving three forest guards injured.

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