Five-year jail term for tiger skin smuggler
PTI, STAFF WRITER
09-February-2011, 18:26 HRS IST
Maharajganj
(UP), Feb 9 (PTI) A local court today sentenced a 35-year old Nepalese
member of a module of poachers to five years in prison for smuggling
tiger skin and bones across the border.
Harsh Tamang, arrested
about two years back by SSB personnel at the Indo-Nepal border at
Sonauli here with two tiger skins and 80 kilograms of tiger bones, was
sentenced to five years of imprisonment by Chief Judicial Magistrate
Amarnath Kushwaha for violating various provisions of Wildlife
Protection Act.
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