(IN): Skeleton in Kaziranga

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Please note the following:

 

*>The forest official said the skeleton was found inside a pit, half covered

with leaves and twigs, leading forest officials to suspect that the poacher,

covered with a mosquito net, was probably lying in wait to trap a

rhino........

 

........The police officer said prima facie evidence suggests that the person

died several months ago. He said forest guards and the police had an

encounter with a group of poachers in the vicinity of the pit nearly three

months back.<

 

*A suspected poacher dies several months back in a pit inside the high

profile National Park and that too at a time when security of the park since

the last one year or more has been tightened ( forest guards + police + para

military forces patrolling & additional manpower meted out by the

administration ) as the authorities claim.

Here is a man who is believed to be a suspected poacher, who digs a pit,

camps inside the park, pulls up a mosquito net ( wonder what other

accessories he was camping with ) finally dies and rots there and his

skeleton is discovered *3 months later.

 

*Could there be many more poachers still trying their luck in the exotic man

made burrows at the park.

 

Please read below the detailed news report of one of India`s most hopeless

conservation business.

 

Azam

 

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Link: http://www.telegraphindia.com/1080227/jsp/northeast/story_8952004.jsp

 

*Skeleton in Kaziranga*

A STAFF REPORTER

 

*Guwahati, Feb. 26:* The recovery of a tattered mosquito net draped around a

human skeleton inside Kaziranga National Park on Sunday has led forest

guards and police to believe that a poacher had met with a grisly death a

few months ago.

 

The incident has also reinforced their belief that poachers camp for their

kill inside the park and do not sneak in and out as assumed earlier.

 

" We are sure now that they stay put for some time and that is why they carry

mosquito nets, " a forest official said.

 

The skeleton was found in the Burapahar range of the park while forest

guards were clearing a jungle road. Some cash was also found in the area.

 

This is the first time a human skeleton was recovered from inside Kaziranga.

 

 

The forest official said the skeleton was found inside a pit, half covered

with leaves and twigs, leading forest officials to suspect that the poacher,

covered with a mosquito net, was probably lying in wait to trap a rhino.

 

But neither the identity of the man nor how he met with his death was clear.

 

 

" But there is every possibility that it was that of a poacher, " said Suman

Chakrabarty, sub-divisional police official of Kaliabor. " What business

would anybody have inside the park with a mosquito net? " he asked.

 

The police officer said prima facie evidence suggests that the person died

several months ago. He said forest guards and the police had an encounter

with a group of poachers in the vicinity of the pit nearly three months

back.

 

" It could be that one of the poachers died in that encounter but we did not

find the body then, " he said.

 

Chakrabarty said the police are coordinating with the Kaziranga authorities

in the fight against poachers. " We have launched operations in remote

villages located in the fringe areas of the park regularly, " he said.

 

Echoing Chakraborty, sub-divisional police officer of Bokakhat in Golaghat

district, Nobin Singh, said operations against poachers were on in full

swing. " We have recently constituted an intelligence-gathering network which

has helped us apprehend several poachers, " he said.

 

 

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