Poacher Arrested With Tiger Bones, Deer Horns In Madhya Pradesh
The woodland officer mentioned Balchand Barkade is a recurring culprit (Representational)
Seoni:
A woodland division workforce has arrested a person hailing from Maharashtra and seized tiger bones and deer horns from him in Madhya Pradesh’s Seoni district, an legitimate mentioned on Wednesday.
Following a tip-off, a joint workforce of the Flora and fauna Crime Regulate Bureau (WCCB) and the woodland division’s Particular Activity Pressure (STF) arrested the alleged poacher from Khawasa village positioned at the borders of Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra on past due Tuesday evening, Wooded area Sub-Divisional Officer (SDO) SK Jauhri instructed PTI.
The workforce seized 8.nine kg of tiger bones and deer horns from the ownership of the poacher, Balchand Barkade, a resident of Nagpur in adjacent Maharashtra, he mentioned.
Jauhri mentioned right through interrogation, the 40-year-old guy admitted he had previous killed three to four tigers and bought their frame portions.
It’s suspected that Barkade could also be a part of a gang of flora and fauna smugglers and poachers lively in Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra, and a woodland workforce is operating on tracing his pals, he mentioned.
The woodland officer mentioned Barkade is a recurring culprit and circumstances of flora and fauna smuggling were registered in opposition to him previous too.
Khawasa is positioned at the MP-Maharashtra border and a big a part of the Pench Nationwide Park is unfold across the village. It additionally falls below tiger motion space, woodland division officers mentioned.
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