From spiderhunters@YAHOO.COM Sun Feb  6 12:07:33 2005
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 22:28:20 -0800
From: Vivek Tiwari 
To: nathistory-india@Princeton.EDU
Subject: Fwd: Big Haul of Wildlife articles

--- Dipankar Ghose  wrote:

> From: "Dipankar Ghose" 
> Subject: Big Haul of Wildlife articles
> Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 18:33:17 +0530
>
> Here is a Press Release from the Delhi Police about
> a seizure of wildlife articles
>
> Dr. Dipankar Ghose
> Sr. Programme Officer (Enforcement and Policy)
> WILDLIFE TRUST OF INDIA
> A-220 New Friends Colony
> New Delhi 110 065
> India
> Tel: +91-11-2632-6025/6
> Mobile: +91 98682 17209
> Fax: +91-11-2632-6027
> www.wti.org.in
>
> ***************
>
> PRESS RELEASE
>
> Dated 1.2.2005, DELHI POLICE - CENTRAL DISTRICT
>
> BIG HAUL OF WILDLIFE PRODUCTS
>
>
>
> With the arrest of four members of a well known wild
> life products'
> smuggler (Don) Sansar Chand's gang namely (1) Sudesh
> Kumar  s/o Tirath Ram r/o
> 10983, Gali Peepal wall Motia Khan, Pahar Ganj,
> Delhi (2)  Ritu w/o Dinesh r/o
> 1116, Gali No.11, Nala Road. Sadar Bazar, Delhi (3)
> Babu  s/o Budhai and
> (4) Badal s/o Vishnu Ram both r/o 2101, Sadar Nala
> Road,  Gali No,1 L Sadar
> Bazar, Delhi. Special staff of Central District,
> Delhi busted  a gang of smugglers of wild life
> products. With the arrest of these smugglers 83
> skins and other body parts/articles of various wild
> animals worth more than Rs. 5 Crores of have been
> recovered. The details are given below:
>
>  1.         39 leopard skins
>  2.         42 Otter skins
>  3.         2 tiger skins
>  4.         14 teeth of tiger/leopard,
>  5.         Approx. 135 Kgs. porcupines thorn
> (Quills)
>  6.         Approx. 60 Kgs. Paws of tiger/leopard
>  7.         3 Kgs Claws of leopard/tigers,
>  8.         10 pairs tiger/leopard jaws
>  9.         40 small bones of tiger/leopard
>
> On the basis of secret information regarding a gang
> of smugglers of
> wildlife products a raiding party under the dose
> supervision of Inspr. Rakesh Giri,
> I/C Special Staff consisting Sl Antrix Alok, Sl
> Pankaj Kumar, HC Ram Avatar, HC Resham Pal, HC
> Satish, HC Sashi Kant, Ct. Sundor Gautam, Ct.
> Jasvinder,  Ct. Bhupender, Ct. Yashpal Bhati, Ct.
> Sanjeev, Ct.  Sat Narain, Ct. Rakesh, Ct. Naresh was
> formed to develop the information. On 31.1.2005,
> they arrested one Sudesh Kumar, an agent of well
> known wild life  products-  smuggler  namely  Sansar
>  Chand,  near  VIP  gate, Ramlila Ground, Kamla
> Market and recovered one leopard skin from his
> possession. On his instance another accused person
> namely Ritu w/o Dinesh and niece of Sansar Chand was
> arrested from her house and 10 leopard skins were
> recovered from her possession.  Both these accused
> were  further interrogated and on their disclosure
> two more accused persons namely Babu and Badal, both
> agents of Sansar Chand were arrested from the
> godown of Sansar Chand at House No.WZ-172. ShadiKham
> Pur Village, West Patel Nagar, Delhi and 28 leopard
> skins, 42 Otter skins, 2 tiger skins/14 teeth of
> tiger/leopard, approx.135 Kg. porcupines thorns
> (Quills), approx. 60 Kgs paws of tigers/leopard. 3
> Kgs. Claws of tiger/leopard, 10 pairs of Jaws and
> around 40 small bones of these animals were
> recovered. The approx. cost of these recovered skins
> and other article is more than Rs.5 Crore.
>
> During the course of interrogation the arrested
> accused persons disclosed that they were working in
> the gang of Sansar Chand. They used to purchase
> these wild life products from the local hunters of
> hill areas of Himachal Pradesh, U.P. and some parts
> of Nepal border.  They used to sell them to buyers
> both' in India and abroad.   During the course of
> Interrogation, it has come to notice that their gang
> leader Sansar Chand, a BC of Police Station Sadar
> Bazar is absconding in case FIR No.362/04 u/s
> 49/49 B(l) W.L. Act, Police Station Manak, Jaipur,
> Rajasthan in which his son Akash and his wife Rani
> is in judicial custody.  In the absence of Sansar
> Chand and his family members, this business of wild
> life products was being operated by his niece Ritu,
> his brother Narain, nephew Pritiam and his agent
> Sudesh. Further investigation in the case is on.
>
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