4 timber smugglers nabbed from Dihing Patkai National Park in Dibrugarh district

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DIBRUGARH: In a crackdown against illegal timber smuggling, the Forest Department on Monday nabbed four timber smugglers from the Dihing Patkai National Park in Dibrugarh district involved in felling of trees. The timber smugglers were identified as Babul Nirmoliya, Jikir Orang, Sobhit Sarma and Tosen Bora.

Forest officials also seized large quantity of illegal timber from their possession apart from several equipment used by the smugglers for cutting the trees.

"We have been carrying out the operation against timber smugglers inside Dihing Patkai National Park since April 28. The timber smuggler gang had chopped Tita-Sopa tree inside the park. We managed to nab four of them. Several tree cutting equipment and machineries were also seized from them," said a forest official.

Sources said the timber smugglers are operating in the Dehing Patkai areas with the help of politicians. "Many illegal saw mills were set up in the Arunachal Pradesh. The timber smugglers use elephants to carry the logs from forest area," said a source.

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