Two fishermen were arrested in the city on charges of poaching flamingos on Saturday. The accused have been booked under relevant sections of the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972 and the Indian Arms Act.
Yashwant Bandari and associate Prabhakar Bhandari were booked after a local resident who suspected them of killing flamingos took their photographs.
Gautam Singh, a local resident, had seen some men with guns, standing knee deep in the mangrove muck on Friday. He informed the police that he had seen three dead flamingos, which he suspected were killed by ‘gun shots’.
The Charkop police showed the photographs clicked by Singh to local informers. The first lead came when an informer identified one of them as a local fisherman who owns a weapon. The search led police to Yashwant Bhandari’s house at 2 pm on Saturday.
R J Bhandekar, senior police inspector with the Charkop police station, confirmed the arrests. On questioning, Yashwant told the cops that he had used his new hunting weapon, a double barrel Indian rifle, on the migrant birds.
source-indianexpress.com
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