A teacher of a Government School in Sundargarh district has been absconding in a wood smuggling case for over aweek and has recently filed his bail application in the CivilCourt.
Sundargarh Forest officials have written to the Civil Court, Sundargarh not to grant him bail. The officials had recoveredillegal teak wood slippers worth about Rs 60,000 from his house. Theteacher, Bira Bikram Singhdeo, works in a Government girls’ high school in the district. He had escaped arrest since he was not presentin his house during the raid. His family members could not produce any legitimate documents insupport of the wood. Singhdeo is still absconding and we have written to Civil Court, Sundargarh not to grant him bail,” said Forest range officer, Sundargarh sadar RK Swain.