Guwahati: Three People Apprehended For Selling Deer Meat

Guwahati: Three persons were arrested from the Mathgharia area of the city for allegedly selling venison or deer meat. Officials of the forest department arrested the accused based on specific inputs.

The body parts of the deer were seized by the department from the apartment they were living in.

The arrested persons have been identified as Shyam Chandra Rai, Arman Puramanik and Mohammad Sahil.

The trio will be interrogated by the officials in order to find out where they found the deer. Officials will also investigate them to check if they are linked to poaching.

A case was filed against them under the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972.

Earlier, two persons were arrested by the SSB from Chirang's Bijni for allegedly selling deer meat at a local market on March 8.

The persons had been identified as Swaram Narzary and Rangalu Basumatary of the same area and the duo were accused of poaching as well as selling deer meat.

The SSB said that they raided them at Dumdum Bazar in Bijni and found them selling deer meat. 43 kilograms of deer meat was recovered from them in total. The duo had been handed over to the local police.

In a similar incident, a person who had been accused of the illegal trade of deer meat was arrested from Bijni's Kumarisali in Chirang District.

He was arrested by a team of the SSB based on specific inputs. The SSB said that the person arrested had been identified as Abin Narzary, a resident of Ladanguri in Bijni. He had been involved in illegal trade and supply of deer meat in the area.

The SSB team found 17 kilograms of suspected deer meat in his possession after he was apprehended. The meat was supposed to be sold in the area.

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