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    Tamil Nadu: Five held for attempting to sell elephant tusks

    The team immediately seized the tusks and arrested five persons - N Ramasamy (65), U Tirupati (70), G Gnanasekaran (61), T Subramani (58) and T Karthik (29).

    Tamil Nadu: Five held for attempting to sell elephant tusks
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    TIRUCHY: The Tiruchy forest department officials arrested five persons who attempted to sell elephant tusks on Friday.

    Based on a tip-off that a gang had been moving with a pair of elephant tusks with the intention of selling them, chief conservator of forest A Periyasamy alerted the district forest officer C Krithika to form a special squad to nab the culprits. Based on the order, a special team was constituted, and they commenced the vehicle inspection.

    On Friday, while they were inspecting the vehicles at Ramjinagar on the Tiruchy-Dindigul highway, they intercepted a car (TN 48 BZ 6779) on suspicion and conducted a thorough inspection, in which the team found that they were smuggling a pair of elephant tusks concealed in a bag. The team immediately seized the tusks and arrested five persons - N Ramasamy (65), U Tirupati (70), G Gnanasekaran (61), T Subramani (58) and T Karthik (29).

    Subsequently, they were brought to the forest office in Tiruchy for further interrogation. Later, they were produced before the judicial magistrate court and were lodged in the prison.

    DTNEXT Bureau
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