Mandla: Police have arrested four poachers in the Mandla district. Police have recovered a tiger’s skin and nails along with its claws and teeth of wild boar from the smugglers. Nainpur Sub-Divisional Officer Police (SDOP) Akanksha Chaturvedi said on Sunday that, in the early hours of Saturday, it was learned from the informer that after hunting some hunter tigers and other wild animals on behalf of Sarhi Bichiya for smuggling the parts of wild animals, tiger skins. , illegally smuggling with his nails and other important parts including the teeth of a wild boar are coming towards Mandla on a motorcycle.
Officer Chaturvedi said that acting on the information, Anjania police outpost in-charge Sub Inspector Jaswant Singh Rajput along with the police team launched a search operation to search the suspected motorcyclists on the highway in front of Ghati Anjania Hanuman temple and four persons on two motorcycles. Saw it coming from the side of the beech. The accused tried to run away after seeing the police. The police caught them by siege and after searching their bags hanging on the motorcycle, a tiger skin, claws including its nails, four big fangs of wild boar and GI wire used to hunt these animals and The ax has been recovered.
According to the information, the arrested accused include Makhan Lal Yadav 40, Anand Kushram 30, Manoj Kumar Pandaram 32, and Itwari Posham 27. A case has been registered against all of them under relevant sections of the Wildlife Protection Act. The accused told during interrogation that about three-four months ago, they had hunted the tiger by hanging it in the forest of Bhalwani with GI wire and removed them from his body by chopping them with an ax to sell the said organs. Similarly, after hunting wild boar, its fangs were removed and they were being taken to sell at high prices.
