Coimbatore : As many as nine persons were arrested by the Sirumugai Forest Range officials on the charges of hunting spotted deer inside the reserve forest using country guns early on Tuesday morning.
Around 5.30 am, the forest officials heard loud gun shots from the forest area. Subsequently, a team of officials, suspecting it to be the handiwork of poachers, combed the Thattapallam area inside Sirumugai reserve forest in the eastern slopes of the Nilgiris.
Following a half-hour -long search inside the forest, the officials came across the group of poachers. The poachers had already killed some deer near the Bhavani deer and were dividing the meat, when the officials caught them.
As much as 27 kg of spotted deer meat, including the hide and legs, were seized from them, the officials said. A country gun, a knife used by them to hunt the deer and seven two-wheelers were also seized.
The accused were identified as Devaraj (35), Ravi (43), Rangasamy (43), Dineshkumar (19), Muthusamy (19), Vijayakumar (19), Sakthivel (29) Murugesan (29) and Vijayakumar (28). All were residents of Sittepalayam village near the Sirumugai forest who cultivated bananas on land ranging between one to two acres. “They are not habitual hunters. This is the first time they committed such an offence, ” Sirumugai forest ranger C Dinesh Kumar said.
According to another official, “after their first two attempts failed, they shot the spotted deer on its stomach from a distance of 25 feet.”
All of them were booked under the Wild Life Protection Act, 1972, and the Tamil Nadu Forest Act 1982 and they were subsequently remanded in the Coimbatore Central Prison.
Source: http://newindianexpress.com/states/tamil_nadu/article1451525.ece
Around 5.30 am, the forest officials heard loud gun shots from the forest area. Subsequently, a team of officials, suspecting it to be the handiwork of poachers, combed the Thattapallam area inside Sirumugai reserve forest in the eastern slopes of the Nilgiris.
Following a half-hour -long search inside the forest, the officials came across the group of poachers. The poachers had already killed some deer near the Bhavani deer and were dividing the meat, when the officials caught them.
As much as 27 kg of spotted deer meat, including the hide and legs, were seized from them, the officials said. A country gun, a knife used by them to hunt the deer and seven two-wheelers were also seized.
The accused were identified as Devaraj (35), Ravi (43), Rangasamy (43), Dineshkumar (19), Muthusamy (19), Vijayakumar (19), Sakthivel (29) Murugesan (29) and Vijayakumar (28). All were residents of Sittepalayam village near the Sirumugai forest who cultivated bananas on land ranging between one to two acres. “They are not habitual hunters. This is the first time they committed such an offence, ” Sirumugai forest ranger C Dinesh Kumar said.
According to another official, “after their first two attempts failed, they shot the spotted deer on its stomach from a distance of 25 feet.”
All of them were booked under the Wild Life Protection Act, 1972, and the Tamil Nadu Forest Act 1982 and they were subsequently remanded in the Coimbatore Central Prison.
Source: http://newindianexpress.com/states/tamil_nadu/article1451525.ece
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