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Sacked Delhi police constable held for Kuno leopard poaching
Madhya Pradesh's State Tiger Strike Force has arrested former Delhi Police constable Bhagwan Singh alias Salim in connection with the killing of 10 leopards in the Kuno-Chambal forest landscape. The arrest came…
The Story in Brief
Madhya Pradesh's State Tiger Strike Force has arrested former Delhi Police constable Bhagwan Singh alias Salim in connection with the killing of 10 leopards in the Kuno-Chambal forest landscape. The arrest came after 10 leopard skins were seized in Agra on July 23. Eight other suspects are already in jail, and investigators are examining whether a major wildlife conservation NGO had any role in what sources describe as possible 'contractual poaching'.
Separately, a man arrested last year for stalking and molesting two Australian women cricketers in Indore has been charged with the 2015 murder of a 17-year-old boy. Aqeel Khan (30) was arrested after he allegedly boasted about getting away with the killing. Police say he had been out on bail in the molestation case.
The Indian Opinion
Mainstream narratives rush to frame every poaching case as either 'rogue criminal' or 'insider sabotage', ignoring the deeper pattern of institutional failure. Madhya Pradesh's leopard body count has risen sharply despite its tiger-centric conservation budget. The real test is whether investigators will name the NGO the sources hint at, or let the trail go cold. How many annual reports show leopard deaths climbing?
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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