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Forest Department officials arrested 8 men for hoarding elephant tusks and cervid antlers adjacent Sivaganga.
As the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau received accusation that elephant tusks and cervid antlers were being stashed successful a recently constructed location successful Allur Vaigai Nagar adjacent Sivaganga, Forest Department officials from Chennai, Madurai, and Ramanathapuram districts conducted a hunt successful the house.
During the search, 2 elephant tusks and six cervid antlers were recovered hidden. Forest officials apprehended and interrogated Dinesh, 26, a nonmigratory of Ilayangudi, who was hoarding the items.
The probe revealed that the items were illegally purchased and smuggled from Mallappan of Sirumugai successful Coimbatore district.
Subsequently, the Forest Department arrested 8 men progressive successful the transgression and gave their names arsenic follows: Dinesh of Ilayangudi, Kasinathadurai, 54, of Sivaganga, Ashok, 46, Sivaganga, Delhi Jayasurya, 26, of Sivaganga, Raghu, 31, of Sivaganga, Murugesan, 63, of Madurai, Mallappan of Coimbatore, and Bhaskaran alias Kannan, 48, of Kalaiyarkovil.
The arrested individuals were produced earlier the Sivaganga Judicial Magistrate Court.
While Murugesan was remanded to Madurai Central Prison, the remaining 7 were sent to Sivaganga territory Jail.
Furthermore, it is suspected that a Grade-I constabulary constable belonging to Sivaganga territory was progressive successful the crime. Forest officials are investigating this angle, sources said.
