Three leopard cubs that were found in a sugarcane field near Mysuru in Karnataka on Thursday have been handed over to the forest department, officials said on Friday.
The three alleged wildlife poachers against whom a prosecution complaint was filed in a special court here were involved in the trading of Leopard skin and wildlife organs, the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) said on Thursday.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed a prosecution complaint against three alleged wildlife poachers under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002, in a special court here, officials said on Thursday.
In a joint operation, Assam police and forest department apprehended two suspected poachers and recovered arms and ammunition in Sonitpur district on Sunday.
The forest department in Assam has seized a huge cache of smuggled animal body parts from the Manas National Park and arrested five suspected poachers on Friday.
Acting upon a reliable source input with regards to poachers in Kaziranga an operation team of STF, Assam proceeded from Guwahati to Kaliabor of Nagaon district in order to apprehend the perpetrators.