Active blaming by Gujarat State Govt. of MP State continues ...... so that Gujarat can keep its monopoly on locally overcrowded dying Asiatic Lions

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Active blaming by Gujarat State Govt. of MP State continues ...... so that

Gujarat can keep its monopoly on locally overcrowded dying Asiatic Lions

 

 

**NEWS**

 

 

MP's tribal group involved in poaching: CID

 

 

NDTV.com

 

 

Press Trust of India

 

Sunday, April 20, 2008 (Ahmedabad)

 

The tribal community of Baheliyas is ''actively involved'' in poaching of

Asiatic lions in Gir sanctuary, the Gujarat Crime Investigation Department (CID)

has said.

 

''Under the garb of selling traditional medicines and toys, this tribal

community members indulge in poaching of wild animals,'' a letter written by CID

(Crime) Officer Keshav Kumar to Junagadh Range Inspector General (IG) Mohan Jha

said.

 

There are about 15,000 Baheliyas, basically from Katni in Madhya Pradesh, who

are actively involved in poaching all over the country.

 

''They camp themselves on the outskirts of the town and put up a tent at the

roads and sell medicine and toys. They travel mostly in trains and buses,'' the

letter said.

 

''The men go out in the forest during night for hunting animals and women sell

them. They travel mostly by trains and state transport buses to avoid checking

by police,'' the letter said.

 

Though the State CID has arrested many tribe members, including the kingpin

Sharkashlal, they have not recovered any body parts of the poached lions.

 

There has been no incident of poaching since April 2007 in Gir, but the CID

letter said the 'poaching community' returns when the heat of the police and

forest patrolling decreases.

 

Around eight lions were poached in different areas in and around Gir Wildlife

Sanctuary in March and April 2007 for their claws, bones and body parts.

 

 

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Baheliyas actively involved in poaching of lions, says CID

 

 

http://www.expressi ndia.com/ latest-news/ Baheliyas- actively- involved-

in-poaching- of-lions- says-CID/ 299542/

 

 

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