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Maharashtra: Three held for smuggling tiger parts
Three persons have been arrested in Maharashtra's Nagpur district for allegedly smuggling tiger parts.
Nagpur: Three persons have been arrested in Maharashtra's Nagpur district for allegedly smuggling tiger parts, an official said on Monday.
Acting on a tip-off, the forest department arrested the accused near a temple in Ramtek on Sunday and seized the tiger parts from them, Vishal Borhate, additional conservator of forests, told.
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Tiger whiskers were also found in the tool box of their two-wheeler. The three revealed about other tiger parts kept at their native place in Madhya Pradesh, following which it was seized it Chhindwara, Borhate said.
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The accused have been identified as Ramdas Bhangu Chavhan (35), Tarasingh Shivprasad Rathore and Bhikamsingh Jeetsingh Rathod (31), the official said.
The three were produced on Monday before a court, which granted forest custody of the accused till Friday, the official added. (PTI)