Great sensation prevails among the citizens of the Santipur area over the illegal felling of trees by some smugglers under the Bamunigaon Forest Range in West Kamrup district of Assam. Despite the Supreme Court's ban on felling of timbers and State Government's directive to deal strongly with timber smugglers, it has been found that forest personnel, shouldered with the responsibility of protecting the forest, have been encouraging the timber smugglers to deplete the forest reserves allegedly taking illegal