Probe into illegal tree felling in Nilgiris urged

Even officials on duty at the two check-posts located on the Nilgiris-Kerala border failed to check the timber mafia who smuggled the trees into the Sultan Bathery area in Kerala,' he noted. As some Green activists in the area brought this to the fore, revenue officials crossed the border, seized the logs from a private saw mill in Kerala and brought them back to Nilgiris, he added. The issue was brought to the State Forest minister Dindigul Sreenivasan when he visited MTR on Saturday. ... DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: Deccan Chroniclehttp://yarp.com/4ac046b56e6e