Forest department grabs truck with illegal wood

06-01-2010
Forest department grabs truck with illegal wood
Gujarat Samachar
Briefly translated from Gujarati

Gir East forest department yesterday caught a lorry Registration no. GJ-4T-9517 on Hirava-Patla road in Dhari sub-district. On specific information received by ACF Raiyani, RFO Ranpariya and RFO A.D. Atara this illegal wood cutting was caught and truck driver Mukesh Chaagan Prajapati, resident of Chalala was caught. He was taken to private farm where wood species like Bavad, Neem, Pipar, etc. was cut. It was being taken as fire wood for a boiler in Rajkot.