Chhattisgarh Police arrested six persons for smuggling Khair wood and recovered wood valued at over Rs 1 crore from them in Mahasamund, police said on Friday.
A joint team of the Cyber Cell and police seized two trucks loaded with Khair wood from separate locations on Thursday, Superintendent of Police Divyang Patel said.
Apart from 421 quintals of Khair wood valued at Rs 1,05,25,000, two trucks, Rs 56,100 cash and three mobile phones were seized from them, he said.
The accused were identified as Bhagwan Singh Tyagi (42), Mansukh (58), Omprakash Kushwaha (45), Shiv Singh (27) and Ramprakash Kushwaha (25), all from Rajasthan, and Avinash alias Sunny Chawala of Mahasamund district, the officer said.
The joint team intercepted the truck on NH-53 and recovered 203 quintals of Khair logs The driver was Bhagwan Singh.
Based on inputs gathered from them, the team arrested Shiv Singh and Ramprakash from a truck carrying 178 quintals of Khair wood logs on Bhanwarpur Road, Patel said.
Later, Sunny was arrested along with 40 quintals of wood.