Mounesh Vishwakarma

Daijiworld Media Network – Bantwal (EP)

Bantwal, Jan 20: Mangaluru CID forest traffic personnel and Bantwal forest department officials arrested one person at Valavoor on Monday afternoon, January 20, for trying to sell the horns of black buck which is on the verge of extinction and those of deer.

The arrested accused is Ujjodi, Kankanady village resident Dilip Kumar G (30), son of Gangadhar. Two horns of black buck and four horns of deer worth several lacs of rupees in international market and car worth Rs three lac are confiscated from him.

The Bantwal forest traffic police and Bantwal forest officials who raided the accused near Bantarabhavan, Tumbe village on the basis of definite clues that the accused is coming to B C Road from Mangaluru to sell the horns took into custody the accused and the goods and handed them over to Bantwal zone forest officer for further action.

Mangaluru CID forest traffic department’s PSI Purushotham, staff Jagannath Shetty, Udaya Naika, Mahesh, Devaraj, Pravin Sunder Shetty and Bantwal forest zone official Suresh, staff Preetam, Vinay and Jitesh took part in the operation under guidance from CID forest unit Bengaluru ADGP Dr Ravindranathan and CID forest Madikeri unit SP Suresh Babu.