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Monday, May 10, 2010

Two more arrested in Tadoba tiger poaching case

CHANDRAPUR: Chimur forest officials, who are probing the tiger poaching case inside TATR, have arrested two more accused and have recovered two tiger nails from them.

In all six accused, all residents of two villages inside TATR were arrested. Three tiger nails, 20 bones and six wire traps with 90 snares were seized. After initial round of forest custody remand, five of the six accused have been sent into MCR for 14 days, while the main accused Mangaldas Madavi has been awarded FCR of two days on Wednesday.

"On the basis of information given by Mangaldas, we arrested Kawdu Madavi from Chandrapur and Ramesh Madavi from Jamni on Thursday night. A tiger nail has been recovered from each of them," said RFO BS Padve who is investigating the case.

The two accused purchased the nails for Rs 1,000 each from Mangaldas.

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