The Saharanpur police recovered 25 quintal horns of wild animals from a godown in Kutubsher police circle on Tuesday. However, the godown's owner managed to escape.

According to reports, the police were tipped-off that Babu, a native of Gulkambo village in Mandi police circle, was engaged in wildlife smuggling. The police also learnt that Babu had stored huge quantity of antler horns in a house in Melagulal colony. Armed with this information, the police raided the house but Babu got a wind of the raid and escaped. During search of the house, the cops recovered a large quantity of horns of wild animals from a room. Police said Babu was an active member of a gang that killed wild animals, including antlers, for their flesh and horns and he had been smuggling horns for the last few months. The police were on his trail for quite some time now. A case was registered against Babu under Wild Life Protection Act and he was being interrogated to find out his contacts with other wildlife smugglers. This is the second incident in which the police have recovered huge quantity of horns. Earlier, three youths were arrested in Saharanpur district on October 2 on charges of smuggling antlers and their horns. The cops had recovered 900 kilograms of antler horns from them. Later, three youths, Asgar, Israr and Mohammed Ahmad, were nabbed from Maniharan locality of Saharanpur . They were engaged in poaching of deer for their horns.