Three office-bearers of the Barto and Tihri panchayats in Sundernagar subdivision of the Mandi district have been arrested for illicit felling of about 200 pine trees in a reserved forest on Monday night, it was officially learnt. According to an FIR, villagers of the two panchayats felled the trees in the reserved forest for the construction of a Jadron-Masog link road. After having failed to get permission to fell trees from the Forest Department, the villagers led by the panchayat pradhans and up-pradhan took law into their hands and felled all trees which came in the way of the construction of the road. The incident happened in the constituency of the Forest Minister.