Puttur, 03 Oct 2015: Mangaluru forests mobile squad seized a truck that was illegally transporting logwoods of wild variety during the checks at nearby Netravati River Bridge in Uppinangady, near here on Mangaluru – Bengaluru NH 66, on September 30.
The forest officials also arrested the accused Mohammed and released him upon anticipatory bail.
The range forest officer J Clifford Lobo, deputy range forest officers Vinod Gowda D S, Sandeep C K, Mahabala D S and Anil K were involved in this operation.
J Clifford Lobo is carrying out further inviestigation upon the instructions of Mangaluru range mobile squad deputy conservator of forests B Sadashiv Bhat.