NEW DELHI: In collaboration with the State Tiger Strike Force of Madhya Pradesh, Interpol Headquarters in France has issued a Red Corner Notice against Tarke Lama, an international tiger smuggler and a citizen of Nepal.<\/p>\n
Lama is accused of illegally poaching a tiger from the Satpura Tiger Reserve and smuggling its bones to China.<\/p>\n
The International Criminal Police Organisation (ICPO-Interpol) is an international organisation comprising more than 195 countries, based in Lyon, France. It facilitates cooperation and crime control for police and other law enforcement agencies worldwide.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The accused Tarke Lama alias Dharke Lama, a resident of Humla in Nepal, has been absconding for 10 years and is wanted in a July 2015 case involving tiger poaching in Satpura Tiger Reserve in Narmadapuram district of Madhya Pradesh, and smuggling tiger bones to China.<\/p>\n
Considering the seriousness of the case, it was transferred to the Madhya Pradesh\u2019s State Tiger Strike Force (STSF) for investigation.<\/p>\n
In this case so far, the STSF made a conviction of 29 out of a total of 30 accused. The Chief Judicial Magistrate of Narmadapuram (Hoshangabad) has sentenced them to 5 years of rigorous imprisonment each and a total fine of Rs 7.10 lakh.<\/p>\n
Under this case only, the STSF arrested infamous international tiger smuggler Tashi Sherpa on January 24, last year, from the India-Nepal international border in Siliguri (West Bengal).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW DELHI: In collaboration with the State Tiger Strike Force of Madhya Pradesh, Interpol Headquarters in France has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[107429,107430,107427,107428,79,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-181697","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-illegal-poaching","9":"tag-international-tiger-smuggler","10":"tag-interpol","11":"tag-red-corner-notice","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}