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Six poachers held with tiger skin

 


Chandrapur Bureau
The Hitavada, Nagpur, 08-January-2011

Chandrapur, Jan 7

THE sleuths of Local Crime Branch (LCB) and Gadchandur cops jointly arrested 6 poachers while smuggling the tiger skin in Gadchandur under the guidance of Superintendent of Police Dr. Manoj Kumar Sharma on Thursday night.

LCB got a tip off from Wildlife Protection Society of India (WPSI), Chandrapur about the smuggling of the tiger skin.

Addressing the scribes, SP Dr Sharma informed that, cops got a tip off about tiger skin being smuggled from Andhra Pradesh to Maharashtra on Thursday night.




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