The Special Task Force (STF) of the Crime Branch rescued a pangolin and arrested a person in this connection near the Biribati Canal Road at Kandarpur in Cuttack district on Tuesday evening.
On a tipoff about a deal to sale a live pangolin, STF sleuths conducted a raid and nabbed one Santosh Kumar Dalai of Gumutipur village in Dhiasahi of Jagatsinghpur district besides rescuing the animal.
Dalai was arrested as he could not produce any valid document in support of possession of the animal and later produced in the SDJM court here on Wednesday. A case has been registered under Sections 379 and 411 of the IPC R/W 51 of Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972.. The pangolin would be handed over to the Nandankan Zoo authorities, said an official.