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India: Wildlife officials on Sunday arrested six men who were poaching birds at a farm in Jawahar Nagar in Navalur. The officials seized 28 dead birds from the poachers who the officials said were gypsies. The kill included 18 night herons, three cattle egrets, two water cocks, a common coot, two black-winged stilts…
Read updateIndia: AP Red Sanders Anti Smuggling Task Force sleuths arrested two smugglers and seized 14 red sanders logs along with a vehicle and tools at Kothapeta near Naravari Palle village, during the wee hours of Thursday morning. According to the task force RSI M. Vasu, the arrested were identified as Abu Baker, hailing…
Read updateIndia: The Local Crime Branch, Raigad, has arrested four people for allegedly smuggling 850 ml snake venom from Gujarat to Maharashtra. Two of the men, Rajaram Ramsomaru Jaiswar (46), who worked with a Customs clearing agent in Mumbai, and Udaynath Ramjeet Jaiswar (37), who did temporary jobs, were arrested from…
Read updateIndia: The crime branch of Jaipur police claimed a major success after it arrested three persons and seized elephant tusks . The crime branch led by ACP Mahavir Singh, arrested Kamlesh Sharma (35), a resident of Bassi in Jaipur; Amit Sharma (23), a resident of Jamwaramgarh; and Vishnu Prasad Sharma (23), a resident…
Read updateIndia: A decomposed carcass of a leopard was recovered from a water body near Bampewada village under Lakhni forest range in Bhandara district, forest officials said Tuesday. The carcass was found near Nawegaon Nagzira Tiger Reserve (NNTR) on Sakoli-Tirora Road, they said. A local villager was detained in this…
Read updateIndia: The Banaswadi police arrested a man for trying to smuggle a leopard skin in the city and seized the skin from him on Sunday. The accused, Kumar, is a resident of H.D. Kote. Based on a tipoff, a police special team, headed by ACP Mahadevappa, was formed. They laid a trap in Banaswadi police limits on Saturday…
Read updateIndia: In what could be called a face-saving act, seven out of eleven red sanders smugglers who managed to abscond from the forest department office in Rajampet on Saturday morning, were nabbed by the cops near Railway Kodur and Renigunta on Sunday. Eleven red sanders smugglers were nabbed by the forest department…
Read updateIndia: A top official of state forest department said that, the arrested poacher was involved in the rhino poaching incident took place at Kawoimari area under Bagori range in Kaziranga national park on June 11 this year. According to the reports, based on intelligence input, police and forest department officials…
Read updateIndia: Two Chinese women were arrested at IGI airport for trying to smuggle out Shahtoosh . Customs officials said their action was not only a violation under the Customs Act, but also under the Wildlife Protection Act and Foreign Trade Act, as the shawls were made from the hair of the Tibetan antelope or 'Chiru',…
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