Shimla, Sept. 6 -- Bilaspur is once again in the grip of sandalwood smugglers, who are fearlessly carrying out thefts while the police remain clueless.
In the latest incident, miscreants targeted Government Senior Secondary School, Kandaur, under subdivision Sadar, late Thursday night.
The thieves locked the school watchman inside his room and cut down a 25-year-old sandalwood tree from the premises.
According to reports, the watchman was confined in his room around 1 a.m. Unaware of the incident, he remained locked until morning.
He managed to open the latch through a broken part of the door and discovered the felled sandalwood tree outside. The smugglers had taken away the thick trunk, leaving only branches at the site.
The matter wa...