Summary:
Bhopal: An inter-state gang of sandalwood smugglers was busted in Ashoknagar with the police recovering 21 logs of Malyagiri sandalwood from a SUV driven by a man wearing UP police uniform. Those arrested include Deepak Chouhan, Vijay Rajput and Bane Singh Rajput, all gang members and Akhilesh Joshi, a sandal wood trader from Kanpur. Two of the gang members also belong to Bharatpur in Rajasthan.The cost of the sandalwood recovered from the SUV has been estimated to be around Rs 8 lakh, police said. The driver told police that the wood was cut from different colonies of Ashoknagar, police said. More than two quintals of freshly cut sandalwood was loaded in the SUV..