Woman poacher sentenced!

July 10, 2009

I do hope that the National Green tribunal being created by the govt to curb

poaching and other illegal activities in the forest reserves, would definitely

have more stringent and effective punishments and sentences for the offenders in

order to put a stop on future wildlife crimes like these! For anyone who has

been in this crime for the last 17yrs, such a punishment of RI and fine is

nothing. I am sure the lady offender would be earning more than the fine she has

to incur!!!!!

Warm Regards

Radhika Singh

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Woman poacher sentenced to five years RI

8 Jul 2009, 2211 hrs IST, PTI

NEW DELHI: A court in Uttar Pradesh has sentenced a woman poacher to five year

rigorous imprisonment and a fine of Rs 25,000 in a 16-year-old tiger poaching

case.

Fifty-five-year-old Dilipo was sentenced yesterday by Additional Chief Judicial

Magistrate (ACGM) Rajeshwari Tolia of a Pilibhit court, who found her guilty of

violating several sections of Wildlife Protection Act by killing and smuggling

tiger skins and parts.

Dilipo along with her associate Ramwati was arrested in February 1992 after

forest officials seized a tiger skin and seven kg of tiger bone parts from their

possession in Pilibhit, advocate DP Singh, special counsel for Dudhwa forest

department, said.

At the instance of the accused, forest officials recovered tiger fat and several

traps used to kill the endangered species.

However, Dilipo, a member of the Bawaria community, managed to get bail in the

case. In 2005, she again fell into the net of the forest officials who arrested

her from Katerniaghat Ghat division in Uttar Pradesh for a similar crime and was

sent to jail for nine months.

When she was arrested in yet another tiger poaching case in 2007, forest

officials thought of tightening the noose around her and reopened the case

registered against her in 1992.

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