Two accused arrested with leopard and bear skins.
Three accused arrested for smuggling ivory Chhattisgarh correspondent Ramanujganj, 29 December. Two accused were arrested with leopard and bear skins under Ramanujganj forest range and three accused were arrested for smuggling ivory in Wadrafnagar range. Investigation of the case is ongoing. During the smuggling of leopard and bear skins near Paltan Ghat under Forest Range Ramanujganj, the flying squad team of Wildlife Crime Control along with the Ramanujganj Balrampur and Wadrafnagar forest department teams surrounded and caught accused Anil Kumar resident Babhani Uttar Pradesh and accused Rambachan resident Purandih red handed with two leopard and one bear skins. Action is being taken against the accused under sections 2,9,50 and 51 of Wildlife Protection Act 1972. In this case, Forest Department SDO Santosh Pandey said that on Saturday evening, the state level flying squad team and the Wild Life Crime Control team informed that come to Paltan Ghat, here the suspected criminals have been caught, after which the staff of Ramanujganj forest range immediately reached the spot and caught two criminals. The investigation of this case is still going on. All the criminals involved in this will be searched. In this action, the flying squad team of Wild Life Crime Control, Balrampur DFO Ashok Tiwari, SDO Santosh Pandey, Deputy Ranger Vijay Singh, Vijay Nath Tiwari, Dayashankar Singh, Shushna Bhagat, Ramdulare Yadav, Mangal Chandra Ram, Rajnath Singh, Khaleshwar Paikra, Krishna Paikra, Pintu Malakar and Basant Prasad Raman along with the employees of the forest department contributed. Apart from this, in Wadrafnagar range also, the flying squad team of Wild Life has arrested three accused while smuggling ivory. In this regard, three accused have been arrested with elephant tusks in coordination with the state level team under forest range Wadrafnagar. In this operation, the flying squad team of Wild Life Crime Control, Balrampur DFO Ashok Tiwari, SDO Anil Singh Paikra, Ranger, Deputy Ranger and other forest employees of the forest department contributed.
