Hunsur: Acting on a tip off, the Forest Department personnel have seized a goods mini lorry near Nellurpala in Hunsur taluk which was illegally transporting logs of rose wood (beete tree) in the wee hours of Thursday.
Details: Following an information that seven logs of rose wood was being illegally transported from Gaddehalla in Suntikoppa of Kodagu to Kerala via Balele in a goods mini lorry by covering it with sacks of ginger, RFO Nandakumar and team had put up near Nellurpala. The team which noticed a goods mini lorry carrying ginger at around 2 am on Thursday, followed the same and stopped the vehicle when the driver escaped from the scene leaving behind the vehicle, said DCF Seema.
