One jailed, another fined for poaching 11 barking deer
One person was jailed and another fined after being detained by Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in the capital's Kadamtali yesterday over the illegal possession of hides of 11 barking deer.
A mobile court of Rab-10 jailed Md Moniruzzaman for one year and fined Mostak Ahmed Tk 50,000 for illegally hunting the deer in Khagrachhari and possessing the hides.
Acting on a tip-off, a team of Rab had carried out a search at a house around 4:30pm, Sarower Alam, executive magistrate of the team, told The Daily Star.
Moniruzzaman allegedly confessed during interrogation that an organised team of poachers hunts deer in Khagrachhari and the Sundarbans and smuggles the hides to India and China.
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