260kg red sanders seized at Chennai Central stn
(WorldNews India)

CHENNAI: Railway Protection Force (RPF) at Chennai central station on Sunday evening nabbed a person who was trying to send red sander logs to New Delhi on a train. The person was working with a cargo movers company and trying to load it through the parcel office. As much as 260 kg of red sanders worth Rs 7.8 lakh was seized in the process and handed over to the forest department on Monday. TOI had in a series of reports highlighted how the Chennai Central and Egmore parcel office are porous enough to allow the transport of contraband goods through trains. In fact, a senior official had told...