The Nilgiris Forest division arrested the main accused of a four -member gang that entered Nilgiris to hunt a wild game in the Kundha forest line, near Yedakkad on Sunday (March 30, 2025).
The Forest Department said that a team of forest department workers, headed by Forest Ranger, B. Srinivasan, was on a routine patrol in the area when he saw a suspicious group of tourists in the vehicle along Edakkad on the Canner road. During the meeting, four men tried to escape from the forest department.
Mr. Srinivasan told Hindu that the main accused, marked as 31 -year -old Abdul Ameen of Malappuram in Kerala, had a charged weapon made and tried to escape from the area when he was confronted by a forest separation. Ameen reportedly pulled the trigger on the gun and released the wheel from the inside of the vehicle in which the gang traveled, and accidentally broke one of the glass windows of the vehicle.
The forest staff persecuted the accused and retained Abdula Ameen, while others, identified as P. Basheer, 36, Shafi, 31, and Suneer, 39, all from the Malappuram, all of the Liability in Malappuram, fled from the scene and still have to be arrested. In addition to rural weapons, hunting and skin knives, torches, mobile phones and used and unused ball cartridges were confiscated from Ameen and inside the vehicle.
When he was contacted, the divisional forest officer (Nilgiris), S. Gowtham, said that the Gudalur and Nilgiris Forest Division, as well as Mudumalai Tiger Reserve (MTR), cooperated in grouping on interstate bags that were fully worked in the district.
“It is a common effort and in the last few months we have managed to arrest four such gangs working from Malappuram in Kerala and Gudaluru,” said Mr. Gowtham. Ameen and his collaborators were part of another group of poachers arrested in the Gudalur division of February 28. “While the inhabitants of one of the cars were arrested, another car with the rest of the gang managed to escape (28 February),” said Mr. Gowtham.
The forest department also cooperates with its counterparts in Kerala in an attempt to close the international poaching gangs, added officials.
Published – March 30, 2025 14:04
