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India: A man in his mid-twenties was arrested with 141 river terrapin turtles from Doon Express when the train stopped at Dhanbad junction on Thursday afternoon. Bishwa Biswas, a native of Bandel in Bengal, was taking the critically endangered turtles home from Jaunpur in Uttar Pradesh. RPF officer-in-charge S.K.…
Read updateIndia: Four persons who had entered Kumudvathi forest near Mugudthi village in Shettyhalli wildlife sanctuary limits, allegedly for hunting, were arrested by Forest Department personnel in the early hours of Wednesday. The accused are Raghavendra, Vasanth, Thammaiah, and Manjappa, residents of Bidarahalli village…
Read updateIndia: A man identified as Paokhanmang Guite of Chinkhanmang of Khuangmun village, Churachandpur district was sent to jail in connection with illegal trading of Pangolin scales. He was sent to Sajiwa Central jail by an order of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Thoubal for illegally trading 1.50 kg of Pangolin scales. It is…
Read updateIndia: A 62-year-old man and his son were arrested on Wednesday for trying to sell tiger skin for Rs 3.5 lakh in Ulhasnagar. Hareshkumar Narayandas Hansrajani, 62, and his son Dipak Hareshkumar Hansrajani, 30, have been remanded in police custody. Police said during investigation they also found that the accused who…
Read updateIndia: The Rampura (City) police have arrested a person for allegedly killing National Bird peacock at Phul town. The post-mortem of peacock was conducted and it was handed over to officials of the Forest Department. A case under Section 428 of the IPC and Sections 9, 39, 40, 50 and 51 of the Wild Life Protection Act…
Read updateIndia: Neyyardam police arrested four men in connection with slaughtering of a wild boar and attempted sale of its meat at Nalparamkuzhy near Neyyardam here on Monday. The police identified the accused as Shaji alias Thokku Shaji, a resident of Nalparamkuzhy, Aneesh alias Lalu, a resident of Maranalloor, Renjith and…
Read updateIndia: UP police's special task force (STF) arrested a smuggler along with 27 kg dried turtle's calipee, a substance found above a turtle's lower shell, from Kanpur Central railway station on Friday. The accused was identified as Salim Sheikh of Malda, West Bengal. The calipee is worth several lakh rupees, said STF…
Read updateNepal: The Central Investigation Bureau of Nepal Police has arrested two Chinese nationals, who were allegedly involved in smuggling body parts of protected species to Nepal from Africa. The suspects of international wildlife smuggling ring are Qiu Guorong, 40, and Que Lebao, 34. SP Jeevan Shrestha, CIB spokesperson,…
Read updateIndia: A huge cache of low intensity bombs has been seized from a Raigad man by crime branch. Pravin Patil (34) was nabbed from Daighar with the explosives used to hunt down wild boars. Patil, a mason, is a resident of Naukhar village in Alibaug. Police seized 292 explosives, locally known as ‘dukar bombs’, which are…
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