Catechu wood seized in Panchmahals dist

Assistant conservator of Forest, Halol, P A Vihol and range forest officer M R Patel said that the truck GTC-5133 and a Suzuki motorcycle GJ-17-H-68 were also seized. A youth, identified as Mehboob Abdul Razak Darvesh, was also arrested and later released.

Rajeeva said though some bills pertaining to purchase of the wood were shown to the officials by Mehboob, it was suspected that they were bogus. According to the bills, the wood had been purchased from a saw mill in Waghodia.

Other officials whose role was said to be laudable in the seizure included A R Pandey, B L Thakur and B R Waghela, N S Parmar and S B Valand, Rajeeva said, and added that it was probably first time in the recent history that khair wood was siezed here.