Animal trophies adorn Pataudi palace

The Tribune , Wednesday, June 15, 2005
Correspondent : Staff Reporter
Panchkula, June 14

Former Indian cricket team captain and accused in the black buck poaching case at Jhajjar, Mr Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, is in possession of several wildlife trophies, which adorn the walls of his Ibrahim Palace in Pataudi village.

Wildlife officials in the state say he is in possession of over 52 animal trophies — most being of protected species of deer. While 40 trophies have been registered with the Forest Department, 12 of these trophies are unaccounted for. Sources say as to how these animal trophies were procured by him, will now be verified. The Haryana Police, accompanied by wildlife officials, had recently raided Ibrahim Palace and found animal trophies displayed on the walls of his house.

Officials say after the Government of India made it mandatory that all wildlife trophies, animal skins, products made from protected animals etc., be declared with the Wildlife wing, Mr Patuadi had declared most of his trophies, claiming that these were inherited and certificates of possession were later issued to him.

However, he could not establish the ownership and source of 12 of these trophies, though he had declared these trophies to the Wildlife wing of the Forest Department. Mr Naresh Kadian, wildlife activist who brought to the fore the poaching case of black buck — a Schedule I animal — by Mr Pataudi and seven others, demanded that the antecedents of these trophies should be checked. “These trophies could have been procured as a result of his passion for hunting,” he alleged.

Mr Kadian said based on his complaints, the Chief Wildlife Warden (CWW), Haryana, had started conducting an inquiry into the episode today. The Divisional Wildlife Warden, Rohtak, District Wildlife Warden, Jhajjar, Inspector Wildlife, Jhajjar , and the veterinary Inspector who conducted the post mortem of the black buck and hares recovered from Mr Pataudi and his accomplices today appeared before the CWW.

 
SOURCE : The Tribune, Wednesday, June 15, 2005
 


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