Mumbai: DRI acquired a selected intelligence {that a} gang of wildlife traffickers was looking for potential consumers for Hatha Jodis (Bengal Monitor Lizard Hemipenes) and delicate corals. While appearing upon the intelligence, a workforce of officers of DRI Mumbai laid a lure for the traffickers.
The extraordinarily cautious trafficker initially referred to as the consumers, who have been carefully monitored by the DRI workforce, to Nandagaon railway station (Nashik district) however saved on altering places for practically 3 hours, lastly deciding to change at a tribal hamlet with a particularly harsh terrain consisting of thorny scrubland with no scope for motion of four-wheelers.
3-4 reconnaissance patrol teams on bikes have been engaged by the traffickers all through the world to repeatedly monitor the world. The DRI workforce evaded identification by the patrol teams by displaying blue flags on their automobile and mixing in with many different autos that displayed the identical because of the impending Ambedkar Jayanti celebrations.
As the trafficker introduced the contraband for change, the workforce tried to hurry in, however have been stopped by a patrol group on a motorcycle. Further, the trafficker was alerted and, very quickly, the workforce was surrounded by 30-odd tribals who began pelting stones on the officers. Using this chance, the trafficker and his associates tried to run away with the contraband.
However, the officers chased them for over half a kilometre on foot within the tough terrain, managing to apprehend the trafficker and in addition recovered 781 Hatha Jodis and 19.6 kg of sentimental corals that are listed below Schedule–I of the Wildlife (Protection) Act,1972.
The seized wildlife articles together with the detained person have been handed over to the Maharashtra State Forest Officials for additional motion below Wildlife Protection Act.
This wildlife seizure within the interiors of Nashik district exhibits dedication of DRI in the direction of combating wildlife crimes and in addition reveals significance of coordinated actions amongst completely different regulation enforcement companies.
Published on: Sunday, April 14, 2024, 04:32 PM IST
