Amravati: Six arrested in leopard trapping case

TNN | Updated: Apr 30, 2020, 11:21 IST

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NAGPUR: Amravati forest officials arrested six suspects in the Khairi leopard trapping case in Paratwada range and have seized two more steel traps and 25 crude bombs from them.
The six have been identified as Pradeep Pawar, Shridhar Bhosale, Sunil Pawar, Sudhakar Pawar, Dildas alias Champu Bhosale, and Atmaram Bhosale, all belonging to Pardhi tribe.
All the accused are residents of Khairi where a trap was laid in a farm in which a leopard got trapped on April 25. Apart from two more steel traps, officials also seized handmade bombs used to kill wild boars, two live quails, one leg of a peacock, skin of monitor lizard, and weapons used to poach wild animals.
The incident caused a flutter in the forest department as steel traps are used to poach tigers for their body parts and skin by organized gangs of Baheliya poachers from Katni in Madhya Pradesh.