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Eight out of 15 seized nails belong to Asiatic lions

• | Tuesday | 11th December, 2018
  

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Rajkot: The forest officials seized 11 more nails of wild animals from the three men arrested on Saturday. Kamaliya was released after interrogation on Monday. On searching Vala’s house, forest officials found 11 nails of which eight were that of lion. Based on Garaniya’s information forest officers arrested Kanubhai Vala from Pania village in Dhari taluka of Amreli district. Vala had given the nails to Garanyia to sell as he was in need of money and Kamaliya had only accompanied him. The nails were found during search operation at the home of one of the accused. On Friday evening, the forest officials had arrested Danabhai Garaniya and Jilubhai Kamaliya from Bhavnagar when they were trying to sell four leopard nails as those of lion’s.

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The forensic report on Mon confirmed that 8 claws were of the endangered asiatic Lions, while 7 other belonged to leopard, which also a Schedule-I species under Wildlife protection act 1972. Eleven more nails were found from Pania village of Dhari taluka in Amreli district, about 20 km from Dalkhania where 23 lions had died recently due to virus infection. claws were found during search operation at the home of one of the accused.

Quote:Vala lives in the village bordering Gir forest and has good relations with forest officials like foresters and trackers (Vala has in the past sold some nails to people 4-5 years back, but we are yet to get the names.

Forest department sources said that Vala was in contact with forest officials and also suspect that some forest employees may be involved in the poaching racket.

Quote:The value of the one nail is estimated to be around Rs 5-10 lakh in the domestic market while in international markets like China and South East Asian Countries, it could be more, said forest officials.

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