Mysuru: Barely days after miscreants chopped down a sandalwood tree inside the compound of a house at V.V. Mohalla and escaped with the trunk, similar incidents have been reported from Yadavagiri Sixth Main and Paramahamsa Road. Residents told Star of Mysore that Yadavagiri has a few fully grown sandalwood trees, which have now become easy…
Sandalwood tree felled; trunk stolen
June 15, 2025Mysuru: Miscreants, who chopped a sandalwood tree grown inside the compound of a house at V.V. Mohalla recently, have made away with the trunk. The nearly 10 ft. tall sandalwood tree was grown inside the compound of the house of Naveen on 16th Cross at V.V. Mohalla. CCTV camera installed in the house has captured…
India’s first Sandalwood Museum opens in city
January 25, 2021Minister moots idea of moving the Museum to Palace or Zoo premises Mysore/Mysuru: If the fragrance of sandalwood attracts you, check out a wide array of sandalwood products and learn about its cultivation and history at India’s first Sandalwood Museum. This first-of-a-kind museum has been set up by the Mysuru Forest Davison at the Sandalwood…
Sandalwood thieves, traders arrested
January 18, 2021Metagalli Police seize 230 kgs of scented wood worth Rs. 35 lakh Mysore/Mysuru: A week after busting an inter-State gang of sandalwood smugglers and arresting four accused, the city Police swooped on another similar gang and have arrested another four accused. The latest arrests made by Metagalli Police have yielded sandalwood weighing 230 kgs worth…
Inter-State sandalwood smugglers held, 10 cases solved
January 9, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: Mysuru City Police have arrested a four-member gang of inter-State sandalwood smugglers and seized 46 kg sandalwood logs worth Rs. 5.5 lakh and a car used for smuggling. With this arrest, as many as 10 sandalwood theft cases reported in six Police Station limits have been solved. The accused have been identified as Bhupathi,…
Miscreants chop, take away sandalwood tree right in front of Police Station
November 12, 2020Hunsur: Miscreants have allegedly chopped and have made away with a fully grown sandalwood tree right in front of the Police Station. The sandalwood was grown inside a park, near the General Hospital opposite the Police Station on S.J. Road in the town. The miscreants, after sawing the sandalwood tree, chopped it into pieces and…
City gets India’s first Sandalwood Museum
November 9, 2020CM Yediyurappa likely to inaugurate after Nov. 25 District Minister suggests to set up Museum at Mysore Palace premises Mysore/Mysuru: District Minister S.T. Somashekar inspected the country’s first Sandalwood Museum, being established at the Sandalwood Depot in Aranya Bhavan premises at Ashokapuram this morning. Deputy Conservator of Forests (DCF) Dr. K.C. Prashanth Kumar said the…
Sandalwood tree stolen
July 11, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: After a brief lull, sandalwood thieves have struck again in the city, stealing a Sandalwood tree grown in the front-yard of a house in Jayalakshmipuram Police limits late on Thursday night. The thieves, who entered the front-yard of the house of one Chirag Mehta on 14th Cross, V.V. Mohalla, managed to cut down Sandalwood…
Sandalwood thieves and red sanders smuggler arrested in city
December 22, 2019Rs. 83.6 lakh worth sandalwood and red sanders recovered Mysuru: In separate cases, Nazarbad Police and the City Crime Branch (CCB) Police have arrested three sandalwood thieves and another person on charges of illegally storing red sanders logs to be smuggled to the international market and have recovered 45 kg sandalwood billets and 750 kg…
Three Sandalwood trees stolen from Forest Department Office
December 4, 2019Officials red-faced as trees axed under their very nose Mysuru: The Forest Department, tasked to protect forest resources, is in an embarrassing situation, as thieves axed and made away with three sandalwood trees at Aranya Bhavan in Ashokapuram here right under the noses of Forest staff. The thieves, who entered the tightly guarded Aranya Bhavan,…
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