Hides of two Neelgai in eight pieces have been recovered from a house near Babe Ali Stadium under Shahjehanabad police station area on Sunday; man detained deals in cattle and their products.
SHO of Shahjehanabad Zaheer Khan said that the accused identified as Mohammad Rauf has been detained after skins of two Antelops have been recovered from his house. The accused deals in rearing and selling goats and cattle.
The involvement of accused in poaching and selling animals would be investigated as in the initial investigation accused refused that the skins are owned by him. The customers and accomplices who are involved in the whole network would be investigated, he added.
Initially he tried to mislead the police and police found that the accused is involved in poaching for long and evidences for establishing offence would be collected. The case would be handed over to Forest Department for further investigation.
During the investigation police have not found any weapon which was used in the hunting and it is possible that the weapons used in the hunting would be recovered later in the investigation.
The nabbed accused has been booked under Wildlife Protection Act 1972. Police said that the accused is involved in hunting in the past. He had been hunting with the purpose of selling products obtained from the hunted animals. Earlier it has been found that wild animals were killed for selling to hotel owners for flesh and in this case it has to be investigated.
