An incidence involving violent behavior in a monitor lizard in India’s Sayadori Tiger Reserve has prompted the Maharashtra Forest Department to proclaim that it is examining the matter (STR).
The occurrence was found after authorities detained four persons on suspicion of poaching with photographs gathered from camera traps deployed for tiger census reasons.
Forest authorities indicated that they have now sought legal advice on using Section 377 (Unnatural Offences) of the IPC in the case, which had previously been pursued under the Wildlife Protection Act.
According to officials, a number of video traps have been deployed throughout the tiger reserve in preparation for the All India Tiger Census. Recently, prior to the process of collecting these cameras from the forest area, the theft of one of the units was discovered in the Gothane area of Satara district’s Patan taluka.
“Our teams discovered illegal infiltration of some people in the protected region around March 27-28,” stated Clement Ben, Chief Conservator of Forests. The four defendants were suspected of illegally entering the wooded area with a weapon to poach.”
Sandeep Pawar, Mangesh Kamtekar, Akshay Kamtekar, and Ramesh Ghag, all natives of Ratnagiri district, were detained between April 1 and 5.
