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Red alert sounded as poachers on prowl in MP
The New Indian Express Coimbatore
|February 17, 2025
AN organised gang of tiger poachers, which also includes women and children, could have poached 10-11 tigers in Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh over the last three months.
It is believed that the arrest of these gang members last month in Maharashtra prompted the central government's Wildlife Crime Control Bureau to issue a nationwide alert.
An ongoing probe by multiple agencies into tiger poaching following the arrests of key operatives of the gang comprising the tribal Pardhi community in Chandrapur (Maharashtra) in January, has revealed a strong possibility of 10-11 tigers having been poached by the gang in the three adjoining states over the last three-four months, a member of the probe team said.
While the notorious tiger poacher Ajit Rajgond alias Ajit Pardhi, his mother, wife and key associates were arrested in Chandrapur on January 25, his equally notorious brother Keru and aides escaped.
This story is from the February 17, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Coimbatore.
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