{"id":349416,"date":"2025-10-09T08:30:48","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T08:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?p=349416"},"modified":"2025-10-09T08:30:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T08:30:49","slug":"forest-team-seizes-truck-loaded-with-illegal-fuelwood-near-barnoti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?p=349416","title":{"rendered":"Forest Team Seizes Truck Loaded with Illegal Fuelwood Near Barnoti"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/4-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-349417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/4-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/4-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/4-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/4.jpg 1280w\" 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 8:<\/mark><\/strong> In a significant action against forest smuggling, the Forest Department team of <strong>Kathua Forest Range<\/strong> seized a <strong>truck (Registration No. JK20A\/2504)<\/strong> loaded with <em>mixed broad-leaved fuelwood<\/em> near <strong>Sodi Palace, Barnoti<\/strong>, around <strong>8:45 PM<\/strong> on Tuesday.<\/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\/5-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-349418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/5-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/5-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/5-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/5.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The operation was carried out by the team headed by <strong>Block Officer Budhi, Sh. Jagbinder Singh<\/strong>, and <strong>Block Officer HQ, Sh. Anshu Sharma<\/strong>, under the direct supervision of <strong>Range Officer Kathua, Sh. Narinder Kumar<\/strong>, and overall supervision of <strong>Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) Kathua, Sh. Ankit Sinha, IFS<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The forest produce and the vehicle were seized <strong>under Sections 52(1) and 52(2) of the Indian Forest Act, 1927<\/strong>, for violating the <strong>J&amp;K Transit Rules, 2020<\/strong>, and in contravention of the <strong>Supreme Court\u2019s directions<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The accused driver, identified as <strong>Rakesh Singh<\/strong>, was apprehended on the spot with the assistance of <strong>Forest Protection Force personnel<\/strong>. Officials said the driver attempted to smuggle the forest produce out of the Union Territory by crossing the designated destination point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The seized truck, along with the fuelwood and the accused, has been brought to the <strong>Forest Complex, Kathua<\/strong>, for further legal proceedings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathua, October 8: In a significant action against forest smuggling, the Forest Department team of Kathua Forest Range<\/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-349416","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\/349416","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=349416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349419,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349416\/revisions\/349419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=349416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=349416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=349416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}