{"id":349408,"date":"2025-10-09T08:16:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T08:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?p=349408"},"modified":"2025-10-09T08:16:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T08:16:26","slug":"forest-team-seizes-khair-laden-pickup-near-rajbagh-smugglers-flee-the-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?p=349408","title":{"rendered":"Forest Team Seizes Khair-Laden Pickup Near Rajbagh, Smugglers Flee the Spot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"663\" src=\"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1-1024x663.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-349409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1-1024x663.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1-768x497.jpg 768w, https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1-1536x994.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1-2048x1326.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">Kathua, October 9:<\/mark><\/strong> In a late-night operation on Wednesday, a forest department team foiled an attempt to smuggle khair wood in the Rajbagh area. The team, headed by <strong>Forester Shiv Kumar<\/strong> (Beat Officer, Lower Hiranagar) along with <strong>Forest Guards Nitish Rasotra, Shiv Murti, and Naresh Kumar<\/strong>, was on routine night patrolling when they spotted a <strong>Mahindra pickup (Registration No. JK08 3658)<\/strong> moving suspiciously near Rajbagh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/3-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-349410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/3-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/3-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/3-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/3-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sensing foul play, the team immediately gave chase and alerted the <strong>Korepunnu Check Post<\/strong> for assistance. The check post team \u2014 comprising <strong>I\/C Dheeraj Pankaj<\/strong>, <strong>FGD Bittu Ram<\/strong>, and <strong>FGD Kali Dass<\/strong> \u2014 swiftly joined the operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The vehicle was successfully intercepted near <strong>Banyari\u2013Andachak road<\/strong>. However, the <strong>driver and co-driver managed to flee<\/strong> from the scene under the cover of darkness. Upon inspection, the vehicle was found <strong>loaded with khair wood<\/strong>, suspected to have been illegally transported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-349411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2-rotated.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The forest team seized the vehicle and brought it to the <strong>Haria Chak Nursery<\/strong> for further legal proceedings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The entire operation was carried out under the <strong>close supervision of Range Officer Jasrota<\/strong> and the <strong>overall guidance of Worthy Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) Sh. Ankit Sinha, IFS.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathua, October 9: In a late-night operation on Wednesday, a forest department team foiled an attempt to smuggle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,9,5],"tags":[51,20,21,22,24],"class_list":["post-349408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-jammu-and-kashmir","category-kathua","tag-alertindianews","tag-kathua","tag-kathuaupdate","tag-latestnews","tag-latestupdate"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","morenews-large":"","morenews-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"aruntrisal786@gmail.com","author_link":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?cat=14\" rel=\"category\">Crime<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?cat=9\" rel=\"category\">Jammu and Kashmir<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?cat=5\" rel=\"category\">kathua<\/a>","tag_info":"kathua","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=349408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349412,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349408\/revisions\/349412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=349408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=349408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=349408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}