Bantwal, Nov. 12: The tempo which was illegally transporting timber was caught by forest officer at Ganada Padpu of Mooda village.
The arrested is identified as Gopala Poojary.
Receiving the proper information of transporting trees deputy forest officer H.B.Ramesh and the team planned to arrest them and near Ganadapadpu they caught the tempo with illegal timber. Then they seized the tempo and the timber. And also arrested Gopala Poojary after he released by bail. The total cost of the tempo and the seized tmber is nearly 1.25 lac.
The investigation is held with the initiation of Zonal Forest officer N. Subramanya Rao. The forest guards Lakshminarayana, Shivalingaswami, Vinaya Kumar, Jayapraksh, Kalabhairava also there in the team.
Deputy forest officer Palayya is taking initiation of further investigation.
