Jammu and Kashmir Police said to have seized fifty logs of illicit timber from the premises of a local in Yahama village in Handwara of north Kashmir’s Kupwara district.
“During intervening night of 17/18 Feb 2023, PS Qalamabad following an information regarding illicit timber lying in the premises of one person named Amir Aziz Sheikh, son of Ab Aziz, resident of Yahama, deputed a police party and recovered 50 numbers of illicit timber logs”, said a police spokesman in a statement issued to GNS.
“The timber was seized and a case FIR No.09/2023 U/S 379 IPC, 26 IF Act has been registered at PS Qalamabad and investigation initiated”, the statement reads further. (GNS)
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