Notorious Wildlife Criminal Sansar Chand Gets Bail
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First published in Sanctuary Asia,
Vol. 32
No. 6,
June 2012
Additional Sessions Judge Pawan Kumar Jain granted bail to Sansar Chand, who is currently lodged in a Jaipur jail in Rajasthan for various other wildlife offences.
Chand was arrested in June 2005 by Delhi Police from Paharganj area here after which the CBI had taken him in the custody.
During his interrogation, Chand had provided several clues to the CBI and also pointed at the existence of an organised crime syndicate engaged in a large-scale operation across various wildlife sanctuaries across the country.
The agency subsequently in 2005 had chargesheeted him under the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA), a first against any wildlife criminal. Read the full report here.
Source: Times of India, New Delhi.
