Continuing its drive against illegal wildlife trade, the Special Task Force (STF) of the Crime Branch arrested a person and seized two elephant tusks from his possession during a raid at Bandhakoili village in Angul district on Thursday.
Based on a tipoff about a deal for ivory was scheduled to be struck in Bandhakoili village, a STF team raided a house in the village with help of Forest Department officials.
While searching the house its owner Duryodhan Pradhan was found in possession of two ivories weighing 4.5 kg each. He was taken into custody under the Wild Life Protection Act (1972).
Notably, from 2020 in the drive against illegal wildlife trade, as many as 29 leopard skins, 26 elephant tasks, seven deer skins, 14 live pangolins, 30.4 kg of pangolin scales, two leopard teeth, 29 leopard claws, 46 live wild parrots and arrested 70 wildlife criminals.
