Port Blair, June 18: On 17/06/2021 at about 0600 hrs, the team of AFEVS unit consisting of Mr S P Roy Deputy Ranger, Mr M Shabbir forest guard, Mr Basant Lall forest guard along with six mazdoors Mr Kaushik Vaishnab, Mr N. Azhagu, Mr. M. Panchavarnam, Mr Anup Mistry, Mr. Ranjan Haldar & Mr. Ashrafuddin on on a tip off went for patrolling to Western coast of Kausalya nagar RF area, under Urmilapur Panchayat & Range jurisdiction of Bakultala & following the foot prints & some other identification marks which indicates illegal trespass into the RF by some unknown persons, the forest team spread inside the RF to trap the suspected accused & about 1030 hrs the team detected four suspected persons carrying some bags coming out of the reserved forest and the forest officials chased them & get hold of two suspect, out of four as the other two suspects manage to flee from the spot taking the advantage of heavy rain and after a massive search the other two absconding suspects could not be traced out & as such the two accused were arrested on the spot with head portion, fat & liver of Andaman wild pig which were seized on the spot from the possession of the accused who disclosed their name as Mr Romanus Dhanwar S/o No as Dhanwar and Mr. Budhadev Sikari S/o Late Prafulya Sikari. The forest officials Seized the wildlife produce & arrested the accused persons on the spot.
On further investigation/interrogation the names of the other two Co-accused were disclosed as Mr. Pradeep Dhanwar S/o No as Dhanwar and Mr William Kaschap S/o Late Somra Munda as revealed by the arrested accused in their statement. All the accused persons are residents of Kalsi village. Further the two arrested accused reveals that alongwith the other two person they went inside the RF at 0500 hrs on 16.06.2021to lay trap and stayed inside the RF over night and on 17.06.2021 morning they noticed an Andaman wild pig got trapped. They killed the wild pig, removed the skin & cut into pieces in the forest and put it in bags to carry. The weight of the seized wild life produce recorded as 5.5 Kilograms by the investigating team.
Since the accused were caught red handed while trespassing the Reserved forest & hunting wild animal & as such they have been booked under the relevant sections of IFA 1927 & Wildlife Protection Act 1972 for committing an offence as per law & after following all codal formalities the arrested accused persons along with seized materials and case related documents in original were handed over to Range Officer Bakultala from where the accused were produced before the CJM in the Court of CJM Mayabunder, from where the accused were remanded to Judicial custody for 14 days.
The entire operation took place under the guidance of Mr. Vijay Kishen, Forest Ranger Mobile Squad Rangat & under overall direction and supervision of Mr. Satyaprakash Singh, IFS Divisional Forest Officer, Middle Andaman Forest Division.
Middle Andaman Forest Division has zero tolerance against any offence related to Wildlife or Forest and any other anti-social activities which prevails in the Reserved Forest area/Protected areas.
The Divisional Forest Officer, Middle Andaman has appealed to the general public to pass any credible & relevant information regarding wildlife/Forest Offences to the nearest Range office or on the below mentioned Telephone Numbers,
DFO Office Rangat: 03192-274210, Range office Rangat: 03192-274204, Range Office Bakultala: 03192-277541, Range Office Betapur: 03192-270103, Range Office Bajlungta (Kadamtala) 03192-267019 and Range Office AFEVS Unit (Mobile Squad) 03192-275353
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