Police have cracked a case involving the theft of teak trees from agricultural land and arrested three individuals in connection with the crime, an official confirmed on Sunday.
Additional Superintendent of Police Sushil Kumar Singh stated that the accused have been identified as Krishna Mohan from Deoria district, along with Ghyanshyam Prajapati and Jitendra Paswan, both residents of Gorakhpur district.
The case surfaced after Abdul Alim, a resident of Ganserpar village under Khalilabad Kotwali, filed a complaint on March 19. He reported that three teak trees had been stolen from his field and from the neighbouring land of Samsudeen during the night of March 10–11.
During the investigation, police found that the accused had cut down the trees under the cover of darkness, chopped them into smaller pieces, and transported the wood using a pickup van.
“The stolen teak wood was later concealed near an ITI college in Deoria. Acting on specific inputs, a police team conducted a raid and recovered 12 logs of the stolen timber,” Singh said.
Authorities also seized a pickup van, a car, a saw, and ropes that were allegedly used in carrying out the theft.
According to the ASP, the accused have prior criminal records. One of them, Ghyanshyam Prajapati, was previously booked under the Gangster Act in Deoria in 2023.
A case has been registered, and further investigation is currently in progress.
