Ashoka Garden police nabbed six persons involved in smuggling sandalwood near JK road and recovered around 58 kg of Sandalwood worth Rs 1 lakh from their possession on Thursday.
Police have started to investigate accomplices and aides involved in the nexus.
The police acted swiftly after receiving information of miscreants carrying Sandalwood and traced the persons near JK road and when they were checked, sandalwood was recovered from their possession.
The nabbed smugglers were identified as Raja Khan of Sehore, Anees Khan and Masoom of Bilkharia and Raees Khan and Pehalwaan of Gandhi Nagar and Golu of Berasia.
Later, the accused revealed that the sandalwood was stolen from Bajaria, Ratibad and other parts of the State Capital.
Arrested smugglers have revealed that Irfan and Irfan Khan of Gandhi Nagar facilitate the selling of sandalwood while Naushad and Anees of Sehore and Yusuf and Shakir of Shajapur buy the stolen sandalwood.
Based on the details of the nabbed smugglers, police started tracking the accused involved in disposing of the stolen sandalwood. Police teams would also be sent to Sehore and Shajapur to nab the accused involved in the nexus.
The crime record of the six would be investigated as in the preliminary investigation, their nexus with the sandalwood smugglers have been revealed.
