Keonjhar: The forest department officials busted an illegal sawmill in Santarapur village under Ghatagaon block in Keonjhar district on Wednesday and arrested six persons in this connection.
Based on intelligence, about 10 platoons of cops under DFO H.D Dhanraj conducted a raid on the sawmill and seized the illegal timbers. While 10 platoon police forces are deployed at the scene, now more than 10 trips have been seized.
Six mafias have been detained in this incident. It has been reported that the number of arrests will increase. The estimated value of seized timbers is estimated to be 1 crore. As there is no space in the Ghatagaon Forest Department office to store the huge amount of wood, it has been kept near Masinabilla, so other places are being checked with the help of drone cameras.