Illegal saw mill seized

Acting on a tip-off a team of forest officials of Dhansiri Forest Division and 37 Bn SSB seized a saw machine and cache of valuable timber logs at Jhargaon near Khoirabari of Udalguri district on Saturday. Reportedly in a joint hunt of Dhansiri Forest Division of Nonai Range and another troop of 37 Bn SSB seized 1.447 cm valuable timber from a illegal mill and also seized two another saw machine and a little cache of timber from two different illegal mills." It was complained for long that such illegal saw mills were functioning in the area,and we were on a lookout for them", said a forest official.