Univ officials among seven booked for hoarding teak logs
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Trichy:21.12.2018
Forest department officials in Trichy on Thursday arrested three people in connection with illegal hoarding of teak trees inside Central University of Tamil Nadu (CUTN) campus.
Seven people have been booked under the Tamil Nadu Forest Act, 1882 that includes the registrar and assistant registrar of the university. However, officials from the forest department maintain that university officials have been booked for being the key administrators and they are unlikely to be arrested.
Teak trees being raised by the forest department near the university campus were uprooted during Cyclone Gaja last month. They were cut into pieces and placed on the sides of roads by forest department near the university premises while clearing debris. Six of the logs went missing a few days ago, prompting the forest department to carry out a probe. A team of foresters confiscated the missing logs from the university campus.
According to forest department officials, three of the arrested had taken the wooden logs inside the campus. Two security guards of the university who are suspected to be involved in the illegal activity were relieved from work by the university on Thursday. “They were on duty on the day the logs were taken into the campus and are likely to be arrested soon,” said forest department sources. The logs could not have been taken into the campus without involvement of a university insider, officials said. Meanwhile, the university in a statement said the activity happened without the knowledge of its authorities.
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Trichy:21.12.2018
Forest department officials in Trichy on Thursday arrested three people in connection with illegal hoarding of teak trees inside Central University of Tamil Nadu (CUTN) campus.
Seven people have been booked under the Tamil Nadu Forest Act, 1882 that includes the registrar and assistant registrar of the university. However, officials from the forest department maintain that university officials have been booked for being the key administrators and they are unlikely to be arrested.
Teak trees being raised by the forest department near the university campus were uprooted during Cyclone Gaja last month. They were cut into pieces and placed on the sides of roads by forest department near the university premises while clearing debris. Six of the logs went missing a few days ago, prompting the forest department to carry out a probe. A team of foresters confiscated the missing logs from the university campus.
According to forest department officials, three of the arrested had taken the wooden logs inside the campus. Two security guards of the university who are suspected to be involved in the illegal activity were relieved from work by the university on Thursday. “They were on duty on the day the logs were taken into the campus and are likely to be arrested soon,” said forest department sources. The logs could not have been taken into the campus without involvement of a university insider, officials said. Meanwhile, the university in a statement said the activity happened without the knowledge of its authorities.
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