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A squad of the Wildlife Crime Control Unit, Coimbatore, has imposed good connected an Avinashi-based seller of metallic cages purportedly utilised for trapping weasels and mongoose that are included successful Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972, listed successful Schedule II, Part II.
Acting connected accusation that Deepan (32) of Merkupathi colony successful Avinashi artifact was making and selling cages done his Facebook page, a squad narrowed down connected him disguising themselves arsenic customers.
Deepan had uploaded videos connected the methods of catching weasel, mongoose and different chaotic animals with the traps.
Under the supervision of the District Forest Officer, Tiruppur, and Deputy Director of Anamalai Tiger Reserve B. Ramesh, the squad cornered Deepan astatine his house, and confiscated the cages successful his possession.
Deepan had reportedly confessed that helium had uploaded the video to unafraid much acquisition orders for the traps.
The squad had reportedly learnt that Deepan had primitively made the cages to trap rats, but had projected it to beryllium a merchandise meant to trap chaotic animals for the intent of scaling up acquisition orders.
The squad warned Deepan against indulging successful the enactment successful future.
A lawsuit was registered, and a good of ₹10,000 was imposed for the Compounding Offence.
As hunting of specified chaotic animals is an offence nether the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972, strict enactment volition beryllium taken connected those indulging successful the act.
