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Following the caller hunting of spotted cervid adjacent Alangulam by a DMK functionary and his friends and consequent apprehension of the culprits and seizure of firearms from them, the Department of Forest has asked individuals possessing unlicensed firearms to surrender them to debar registration of cases and ineligible consequences.
In a statement, District Forest Officer R. Rajmohan has said the Department of Forest, based connected quality collected by wood personnel, has decided to motorboat extended hunt crossed the territory to prehend unlicensed firearms similar rifle, pistol and revolver, which tin beryllium utilized for hunting. Those who person unlicensed firearms should surrender them to the Forest Range Officer acrophobic earlier November 30 to debar registration of cases against them and consequent ineligible consequences.
Those who privation to deposit the licensed firearms with the wood section tin besides bash so. Moreover, the individuals owning wildlife trophies should besides surrender the aforesaid to to the Forest Range Officers concerned.
Those who privation to surrender the licensed / unlicensed firearms and wildlife trophies whitethorn interaction tenkasidfo@gmail.com oregon District Forest Control Room (04633 – 233550), Forest Range Officers of Sivagiri (04636 – 298523), Puliyangudi (04636 – 235853), Kadayanallur (04633 – 210700), Courtallam (04633 – 298190), Tenkasi (04633 – 233660) and Alangulam (04633 – 293855).
Anyone having cognition astir the unlicensed firearms oregon wildlife trophies tin besides interaction these numbers and the informers’ individuality volition beryllium intimately guarded secret, the connection said.
Meanwhile, the wood section has deployed teams to show elephant question and forestall the chaotic animals from entering ranches astatine Vadakarai and pursuit them backmost into the reserve forest. Farmers who announcement the introduction of chaotic elephants into farms whitethorn alert the wood section truthful that the nearest squad volition unreserved to the spot to pursuit the carnal backmost into the jungles, the DFO said.
