11 deer hides seized in Dhaka, 2 held
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) today detained two persons with hides of 11 deer in Kadamtali area of Dhaka this afternoon.
Md Monirujjaman, one of the detainees, was sentenced to one year of imprisonment while Mostak Ahmed, was fined Tk 50 thousand for possessing the skins illegally by a mobile court of Rab-10.
Acting on a tip-off, a team of Rab carried out a search at a house in the area around 4:30pm and detained the duo with the animal hides, Sarwoer Alam, executive magistrate of the team, told The Daily Star.
They were charged with the crime of illegally hunting barking deer or 'maya horin' in Khagrachari and hoarding the skin.
During interrogation, Monirujjaman confessed that an organised team of poachers hunts down deer in Khagrachari and Sundarbans regions and smuggles the hides to India and China.
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