VELLORE: The Jamunamaruthur
police
in Tiruvannamalai district of
Tamil Nadu arrested six
woodcutters
who were heading to neighbouring
Andhra Pradesh to fell
red sanders
trees. The police seized an axe and two machetes from them.
Acting on a tip off, the police arrested the six men while they were waiting at the Kommuttur lake bus stop on the
Jamunamaruthur
- Alangaym Road to catch a bus.
The arrested have been identified as K Ganeshan, 37, of Yelavanputhur, his younger brother Ealumalai, 25, R Ponnusamy, 37, of Melvilamoochi , C Kuppusamy, 24, of Padamanjamarathur, T Sathiyaraj, 23, of Tirupathi Kalyanamandhai and G Prabhu, 23, of Periya Manjoor.
They have been booked under Section 399 of the IPC (Punishment for making preparation to commit dacoity) and remanded in judicial custody.
Red sanders smugglers engage woodcutters from Tamil Nadu to fell the precious trees in Andhra Pradesh forests. The Andhra Pradesh police have arrested several such woodcutters. In April 2015, the police gunned down 20 woodcutters.
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