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11 wood smugglers arrested at Udaipur : Jail-returned Criminal under 'Arms Act' spotted as Mastermind
TIWN May 23, 2018
11 wood smugglers arrested at Udaipur  : Jail-returned Criminal under 'Arms Act' spotted as Mastermind
PHOTO : 11 wood smugglers arrested Udaipur. TIWN Pic May 23

UDAIPUR, May 23 (TIWN): With a successful drive, Udaipur police have arrested 11 persons in wood smuggling racket at Bagma, Gomati District in Tripura. The raid has been conducted under SDPO Himadri Kumar Das at Bagma area on late night. According to police sources, at night 2 am in a special raid against wood smuggling, these 11 persons have been arrested along with woods. Three vehicles were also seized along with the thieves. A vehicle bearing number TR01E-1790 DI and two bikes with number TR003-7679 and TR03F-8797 were recovered by police. Bagma Police informed that among the arrestees Alek Mia is the mastermind of such crimes across the District. More 10 arrestees are : 1) Sukhen Das, 2) Khalil Mia, 3) Joy Singh, 4) Ranajit Deb, 5) Basan Mia, 6) Manik Hossain, 7) Abdul Mahasin, 8) Sofyuj Mia and more two. Alek Mia was just released from Jail before few days who was punished under Arms Act.

During the raid, the smugglers also held attack upon police but remained unsuccessful.
 
Wood smuggling rackets developed in Tripura since decades, left the forest areas totally under deforestation threats. 
 
Police said, strict actions to be taken against the arrested persons and strong chargesheets to be filed against each. 
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