Tiger Poaching

The forest department officials have arrested three persons and recovered tiger parts and poaching equipments from them.
The accused have been identified as Praful Vishwanath Shedmake from village Kolsa, Hanuman Pundlik Jumnake, from village Saiwan and, from Jhari, in Chandrapur district.
Umesh Dhotekar, Range Forest Officer (RFO), Bhadravati, said, “WE got tip off from Wildlife Protection Society of India activist about a person possessing tiger claws was trying to sell them at village Saiwan on march 18. Following the information, we set a trap in the village and arrested Praful Shedmake.”
The officials recovered 10 tiger claws from him. When put to interrogation, Shedmake revealed that he got the claws from Janpat Kumre. “As per the information received, we raided house of Janpat Kumre and arrested him. His interrogation led us to one Shalik Gedam, a resident of village Doni,” Dhotekar said.
However, by the time, forest officials reached Doni, Gedam managed to escape. During the search of the house, officials recovered one-and-half kg of dried meat, three chital trophies, three molars, 86 wire traps and one suspected tiger lucky (collar) bone. “The poaching equipments recovered from the house of Gedam indicate that he is a regular poacher,” Dhotekar said. The search for other tiger parts is on. The accused were produced in the court and sent to jail.