A Combined team of Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB), Jabalpur, Tiger Strike Force and Jabalpur Forest nabbed two accused and seized two skins of spotted deer and barking deer from them in Barela, on Wednesday. The arrested poachers have been identified as Dharmendra Kumar Kushwaha (23) and Jitendra Kumar Warkade (30), residents of Barela. According to WCCB Jabalpur under the direction of WCCB, Jabalpur, Deputy Director, Abhijit Roy Choudhary and Divisional Forest Officer, Jabalpur Anjana Tirkey a special campaign has been started against persons involved in poaching and wildlife trade.

 

During the campaign, Wildlife Crime Control Bureau Jabalpur received information about two suspects who were trying to sell skins of wild animal. Taking prompt action on the information, a team of WCCB, Tiger Strike Force and Jabalpur Forest Department started a secret search. Investigating the case, team learnt that the suspects were sighted at market place near Barela Forest Range Office. Acting on the information, team started a search and succeeded in trapping the two suspects when they were riding on a motorcycle.

 

In their search, team found two skins of spotted deer and barking deer in a bag. Wildlife Crime Control Bureau official informed that names of arrested could not be disclosed for further investigation into the case. Arrested are being interrogated for disclosing the names of other people working in the network of wildlife trade and poaching.