Panchkula, March 17 -- A forest guard and two others have been arrested for their alleged involvement in the theft of around 400 to 500 cutch trees from a reserved forest area near Asrewali village of Panchkula, police said.

The arrested forest guard has been identified as Raghwinder Singh,40, a native of Bathinda, presently residing at Peer Muchalla in Zirakpur. The other accused are Imran alias Manna ,35, from Asrewali village and Dil Bahadur, 41, a native of Nepal currently residing in Solan district of Himachal Pradesh.

All three accused were produced in a local court on Monday and sent on a three-day police remand.The Chandimandir police had registered the case on March 10 on the complaint of Panchkula divisional forest officer (DF...