Instagram Based Wildlife Poaching Racket Busted
Deccan ChronicleHyderabad: A wildlife poaching racket with a team of three youth trapping and killing wild animals and promoting their ‘wares’ through Instagram reels, was cracked on Wednesday with the arrest of a youth who on his Instagram account would post short videos of their ‘captures’ and create a buzz and receive inquiries about meat of the animals trapped by him and his two friends. Acting on a tip-off, forest officials of Khammam district caught Tammishetty Vamshi, who the officials said operated the Instagram account, and that they expect to catch the other two soon. Khammam district forest officer Siddharth Vikram Singh said the youth were in the habit of catching jungle cats, Palm Civets, and Monitor Lizards, and Hares and selling the meat of the animals. The case is being investigated by V. Manjula, the Khammam forest divisional officer, and Kusumanchi forest range officer P. Srinivas Rao, deputy range officer P. Suresh, forest section officers P. Daneil and Kishore.
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