Man held with jumbo tusk in Odisha’s Angul

By Express News Service

BHUBANESWAR: The Special Task Force (STF) of Odisha police on Wednesday arrested an individual on prices of possessing an elephant tusk in Angul.

Acting on a tip-off, the STF officers with the assistance of forest personnel arrested Sudar Naik and seized an elephant tusk from him in the course of the raid at Antulia village inside Angul forest division.

The accused couldn’t produce any paperwork supporting the possession of wildlife gadgets. He was remanded to judicial custody beneath sections 379/411 of Indian Penal Code and section-51 of Wildlife Protection Act.

The seized elephant tusk will likely be despatched to Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, for chemical examination, mentioned STF DIG JN Pankaj. The STF via its particular drive in opposition to wildlife criminals has confiscated 10 elephant tusks to this point. Besides, 18 leopard skins, two deer skins, 5 stay pangolins, and 15 kg pangolin scales have been seized within the final one 12 months and 37 offenders taken into custody.