Sandal wood tree felled in Jawalamukhi

SANDALWOOD FELLING Jawalamuklhi

By Bijender Sharma
Jawalamukhi March 22,2008--Some miscreants allegedly felled five sandalwood trees in Bohan of Jawalamukhi Police station area this morning trees and took away the logs in a vehicle from a “chandan van” maintained by the Forest Department near the Ashatbhuji mandir here last night.A case has been registred by the local police.Some days back, Amit Kumar of Harinagar in UP was caught felling a sandalwood tree from Madan Lal's land in Bheroo Bohan village on the Jawalamukhi-Dehra road, The Jawalamukhi police has arrested Amit Kumar under Section 379, IPC. Amar singh of Aligarh and Manoj alonwith brahmanand was arrested by the police with the help of locals recently,When they are trying to fell sandalwood in the area. The S S P Kangra Atul Phulzale told mediapersons that the police is trying to establish a link to expose a sandalwood smuggling racket being carried out from Jawalamukhi, which has a large number of sandalwood trees.