2 booked for felling teak trees illegally

Coimbatore: The forest department seized a truck load of teak wood at Kovaipudur here on Monday night.
A forest officer, who didn’t want to be named, said David Solomon, of Kovaipudur, had cut 17 teak trees that he had grown on his land without obtaining permission from the forest department.
“When environmental activist K Syed came to know that the wood was being transported to Trichy Road from Kovaipudur in a truck, he alerted us.”
The officer said Solomon did not know that he should get permission from the forest department to axe the teak trees on his land and transport them.
“We have registered a case against him and truck driver Karuppusamy under Section 35 of timber transport rule of the Tamil Nadu Forest Act, 1882,” he said.
He said teak was a scheduled timber and people growing them should get permission to axe and transport them.