Bantwal : 5 lorries smuggling sand seized in midnight operation

Mangalore Today News Network

Bantwal, Sep 14, 2019:  In a midnight operation, a team of officials led by Bantwal Tahsildar Rashmi S R  seized five lorries which were transporting sand unauthorisedly. The lorries have been handed over to the police.

 

The raid followed information that sand which was illegally  stocked in a place was being smuggled to other districts for  double the prices in unauthorised lorries.

If two lorries were seized at Panemangalore, one each was seized at Marnabailu, Cheluru and Padibagilu in Vittla.