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Assam: Protectors turn predators as Rani timber smuggling thrives

Guwahati: A rampant timber smuggling operation, allegedly conducted with the complicity of Assam forest and police officials, has unleashed a reign of terror in Rani Reserve Forest under the Kamrup East Forest Division. The illegal trade, reportedly patronized by personnel from the Rani Forest Range office, includes timber, coal from Meghalaya’s rat-hole mines, and other goods transported across […]