The Kelantan Forestry Department has arrested three men over suspicions of encroachment into the Sungai Terah permanent forest reserve in Gua Musang, Kelantan since two years ago to set up a ketum plantation.

State Forestry director Abdul Khalim Abu Samah, at a press conference in Kota Bharu this afternoon, said all three suspects, aged between 25 and 33, were arrested in a dilapidated hut at 10am yesterday, following a public tip-off and the department's intelligence...