With the arrest of notorious poacher Durru, who set a jaw trap to capture a three-legged tiger — Maasti — in Maastigudi in Nagarhole Tiger Reserve, the CID Forest Cell has confirmed the prevalence of inter-state wildlife crime since 1982. They have now decided to maintain a DNA profile of all the seizures.
The measure would help them bust cases in a better way and maintain a scientific data bank. Additional-director general of police (forests), KSN Chikkerur, said that samples in all cases, irrespective of what was seized, would be sent to the head office in Bangalore, from where they would be sent to National Centre for Biological Sciences for DNA profiling. “To begin with, we are doing DNA profiling of tiger, leopard and other skins. As the next step, we will start with ivory,” he said.
Chikkerur said that DNA profiling had been done for the 23 leopards, 43 small claw-less and smooth-coated other pelts and a tiger skin, seized from the house and guest house of Prabhakar Keshav Gajakosh in Haliyal and Hubli, a wildlife product dealer, in 2007.
The biggest seizure by the CID Forest Cell sleuths established that Durra, an associate of poacher Sansar Chand who is in Tihar jail, was supplying pelts to Prabhakar. The sleuths arrested Prabhakar and 10 others, including Sansar Chand’s brothers Rajkumar and Narayan, in July in 2009.
Durru, alias Kanka Lal, 38, who has been sent to Bhavnagar in Gujarat to appear in a trial, would be brought back to Bangalore on March 17. Durru is the son of Hariprasad Lasakchand, another notorious poacher and a resident of Birahuli village in Madhya Pradesh.
Durru has been booked in three cases — two for seizures in Hubli and Haliyal in 2007 and for escaping from judicial custody in 2009.
http://www.dnaindia.com/bangalore/report_cid-preparing-data-bank-to-tackle-wildlife-crime-in-karnataka_1514376
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