Assamese gets 7-year jail for killing hog deer
The case was based on an FIR lodged by a security guard on March 18 at Saikhowa police station.
By : manoj anand
Update: 2019-10-17 21:10 GMT
Guwahati: A district court in As-sam has sentenced a man to seven years’ imprisonment for kil-ling an endangered species of ‘hog deer’, a mammal listed in Schedule III of the Wildlife Protection Act of 1972.
The court of additio-nal sessions judge A. Hakim in eastern As-sam’s Tinsukia district delivered the se-ntence on October 3 to one Ashik Barua of Uparlaopani village with a fine of '50,000. The judge also prescribed an additional year of imprisonment “in default” of the fine.
The case was based on an FIR lodged by a security guard on March 18 at Saikhowa police station.