Special Task Force (STF), UP claimed to have arrested a notorious animal poacher from Bijnaur. The miscreant was identified as Saeed aka Saheed of Bijnaur district. The cops recovered a mobile phone along with a SIM card. Giving detailed information of the arrest, ASP STF, Dr Arvind Chaturvedi said the Wild life Crime Control Bureau had requested the STF to help in nabbing Saeed who was wanted for a long period of time. He said a team was thus formed and the STF sleuths subsequently nabbed Saeed.
Saeed name surfaced in the crime after two miscreants- Soorajbhan and Naresh aka lala were arrested by Delhi police and they disclosed that they had purchased hide, bones, teeth and claws of lion from Saeed in Rs 6 lakh. It also surfaced that Saeed had promised them to supply another set of the lion’s hide and other limbs to them. Thereafter Saeed came under the scanner.
It may be mentioned that earlier to the arrest, a STF team had nabbed five miscreants, named as Dharmveer, Sunil Sapera, Mohammed Umara, Punit aka Cheenu, all of Bijnaur district and lavi Singh of Pithauragarh for smuggling animal limbs and hide in Bijnaur. Subsequently a case was lodged against the miscreants and the Bijnaur police had slapped Gangster Act on the poachers. At their arrest, the STF had recovered huge quantity of animal hide and limbs.