Manoj Roy, Dhan Bahadur Tamang, Daulat Singh Karki, Kumar Tamang, Binod Ramtel, Mani Raj Shreshtha and Binod Magar are among those arrested. All of them are residents of Itahari.
A police team from Hansposa post arrested them while trying to smuggle 11 logs of freshly sawed saal (Shorea robusta) in a tractor (Ko 1 Ta 3286).
They have admitted during interrogation that they smuggled timbers in connivance with office bearers of Saraswoti Community Forest User Group, Itahari, Sunsari.
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