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Police confiscate weapons and wildlife parts from forest guard's house

2017-01-17

Madhes, Rautahat, Chandrapur

Police on Tuesday raided a forester’s house and seized a large amount of improvised explosive devices (IEDs), arms and body parts of wild animals in the district. Acting on a tip-off, a police team led by Inspector Ashok Jha raided Bijaya Shrestha’s house based in Chandrapur Municipality-14 and seized a large amount of improvised explosive devices, arms, its ammunitions and various body parts of endangered wild animals. The team also seized a 12-bore shotgun, its six rounds of bullets, 130 bullet-shells, 1 kg shrapnel, a half kg of gun-power, among others from Shrestha’s house. Shrestha is a forester at the District Forest Office, Rautahat. Necessary action will be taken against Shrestha if found guilty following an investigation into the case, District Forest Office, Rautahat Chief Dirgharaj Koirala told Republica Online. 

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