Busted: Police seize timber from govt school building
Smugglers allegedly stored wooden logs to transport them later to Punjab.
Smugglers allegedly stored wooden logs to transport them later to Punjab. DESIGN: SAMRA AAMIR
MANSEHRA:
The police claim to have seized timber worth hundreds of thousands of rupees from a government school building, sources said Monday. Smugglers allegedly stored wooden logs to transport them later to Punjab.
Battal SHO Habibur Rehman told journalists they received an intelligence report about the offloading of an illegal timber consignment. Based on this, the police raided the old building of the Government Primary School for Boys in Sharkol village Sunday evening.
They recovered 62 wooden logs measuring about 200 square feet each. Rehman said the school watchman may have been an accomplice of the smugglers and could have allowed them to store timber from a nearby forest.
The wood would have been taken to Haripur via Tarbela Lake, added the official. Classes were being held in the new building of the school while the old premises were locked up. The SHO said the watchman and school staff will be interrogated.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 3rd, 2013.
The police claim to have seized timber worth hundreds of thousands of rupees from a government school building, sources said Monday. Smugglers allegedly stored wooden logs to transport them later to Punjab.
Battal SHO Habibur Rehman told journalists they received an intelligence report about the offloading of an illegal timber consignment. Based on this, the police raided the old building of the Government Primary School for Boys in Sharkol village Sunday evening.
They recovered 62 wooden logs measuring about 200 square feet each. Rehman said the school watchman may have been an accomplice of the smugglers and could have allowed them to store timber from a nearby forest.
The wood would have been taken to Haripur via Tarbela Lake, added the official. Classes were being held in the new building of the school while the old premises were locked up. The SHO said the watchman and school staff will be interrogated.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 3rd, 2013.