Top Panel





Home :: News :: 19042011
Naxals trying to make inroads into tiger reserve area: cops

 


Vivek Deshpande
Nagpur, April 19

A senior Naxal cadre has allegedly corroborated the police’s suspicion that Naxals are trying to constitute a dalam (military unit) for villages in and around the Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve (TATR).

A state committee (CPI-Maoist) member and secretary of Chandrapur Area Committee, Bhimrao alias Bhanu alias Bhaskar Bhovte was arrested along with his wife Sunanda alias Megha alias Vanaja Vasant Ramteke in Gondia district a day before Home Minister P Chidambaram’s visit to Gadchiroli in December last year.

“Bhovte told us that a survey was done in TATR and surrounding villages in the recent past with the intention to form a dalam,” a senior police officer said.

A series of raids followed the couple’s arrests at the dens of Naxal activists in places such as Mul and Sindewahi, situated near the tiger reserve.

Some hand-written material, most of them survey reports, was seized. One of the reports was about the survey in the tiger reserve.

“A crackdown had ensued on some youth members of an organisation claiming to be a students’ body in Chandrapur a few years ago. While many of the youths, including some girls, had been deputed as dalam members under the North Gadchiroli Gondia Committee of CPI(Maoist), some were engaged by the Chandrapur Area Committee to work in the TATR landscape on building a dalam, our interrogation has revealed,” the official said.

The report mentions the “demarcation of a 8-km road from Mul to Somnath” (a Shiv temple nestling in the north-eastern TATR fringe) and “identification of our men in the villages along it.”

.

read full story here
 

 

 

  Untitled Document
 Search:







TIGER NEWS



With growing tiger population, Madhya Pradesh to develop buffer zones around tiger reserves , 22nd April 2025


Chargesheet filed in Rajura tiger poaching case, probe reveals international smuggling network, 26th March 2025


Previous



WILDLIFE NEWS


Two cheetahs move to new home in Madhya Pradesh, 20th April 2025

First estimate of Gangetic dolphins finds 6,327 across four States, 3rd March 2025

Previous


PROJECTS


Tiger Poaching & Illegal Wildlife Trade Investigations




TIGER MORTALITY

TIGER DEATHS IN 2025
 Mortality                     70
 Poaching &             
 Seizures                      20
___________________
       Total                      90


TIGER DEATHS IN 2024
 Mortality                 127
 Poaching &               26
 Seizures                   
___________________
       Total                   153


TIGER POACHING 1994-2024


LEOPARD MORTALITY

LEOPARD DEATHS IN 2025
 Mortality                192
 Poaching &              50
 Seizures             
___________________
       Total                  242


LEOPARD DEATHS IN 2024
 Mortality                 394
 Poaching &             130
 Seizures             
___________________
       Total                   524
     

LEOPARD POACHING 1994-2024



TIGER RESERVES
Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve Map 

Bandhavgarh



Jobs

No Vacancy at present


 
Untitled Document
  About us | ProjectsNewsThe TigerDonations | How To Help Links| Publications | Crime MapsFAQsContact Us

Wildlife Protection Society of India. All material is protected by law.