A mobile court in Pirganj, Thakurgaon, has sentenced two men to a year's simple imprisonment each for trapping egrets and keeping them in cages. Each was also fined Tk 500, with 15 more days in jail if they do not pay. About 15 rescued egrets were then set free.
The court was run on Thursday, 1 October, by Pirganj upazila nirbahi officer and executive magistrate Golam Rabbani Sardar. The two convicted, Shakib Islam and Rashidul Islam, are from Chapaitar village in neighbouring Bochaganj upazila of Dinajpur.
According to Pirganj forest beat officer Mohsin Ali and the local administration, egrets were being trapped beside the Kalupir-Thumnia sal forest in the upazila. Acting on a tip-off, forest beat officials raided the spot, detained four people and recovered the traps and 15 caged egrets.
Two of the four confessed and were sentenced. The other two, being minors, were handed back to their families on a bond. The convicted men were sent to Thakurgaon district jail in the afternoon, said Pirganj police station officer-in-charge Iqbal Hossain Pramanik.
The UNO said the birds had been caught for sale in breach of the wildlife protection law.
The report is by Desh Rupantor's Thakurgaon correspondent.
Photo: Ashef Emran / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Source: Desh Rupantor
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