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Retired NA General Rana held for poaching
Added At: 2012-06-13 11:00 AM
Last Updated At: 2012-06-13 5:07 PM
Shreeram Sigdel
Rtd Gen Rana (l) and Rtd Subedar Karki along with the killed red deer.
THT ONLINE
NAWALPARASI/CHITWAN: Police on Wednesday arrested retired General of Nepal Army Sagar Shumsher JB Rana (70) and two of his friends—one retired Subedar and another incumbent captain in the army —on the charge of poaching wild animals from a community forest in the buffer zone of the Chitwan National National Park in Nawalparasi district.
Locals had held retired Gen Rana, retired Subedar Sitaram Karki and Catain Baladev Kunwar who is posted at the Danda-based Bajradal Battalion along with lethal weapons used in the crime and poached wild fowls and red deer at the Namuna Community Forest at 6 am today morning. They were subsequently handed over to the police.
Rana hails from Kupondole in Kathmandu and Karki is a resident of Agyauli of Nawalparasi district.
They were held by the locals and forked out to the Kawasoti Area Police, Jhamak Bahadur Kark, a Conservation Officer at the Chitwan National Park, said.
The high-profile poacher and his friends had driven into the community forest at Pithauli in a vehicle (Ba 2 Cha 4354) at 5 a.m.
Captain Kunwar claimed that Rana and Karki asked them to join them in the morning walk and killed the deer abruptly.
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Posted on: 2012-06-13 16:40:02
The arrogance with which former army officers treat their country is disgusting! Why does a retired general have access to sniper weaponry? Presumably there aren't that many such weapons within the nation's arsenal and they should be guarded well. Then this corrupt retired drove his vehicle into what he had to know was a prohibited zone and then began to shoot with what I'm sure he thought was impunity. The killing of innocent animals is offensive to the Gods who I'm sure were looking down with disfavor on this day. This all points to how the nation must [urge itself of such arrogance and corruption. parbati lama, Boston, USA
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Posted on: 2012-06-14 04:17:11
Thanks to brave people of Nawalaparasi for daring to caputered those criminals.Lets book those criminals under law.Lets not let them go like Dilip SJB Rana.All are equal under law and they should be treated as any other criminals.People of Nepal wants justice to be done.Beware ! Sanatan, US