Kutiyana: The Kutiyana forest department team booked 11 accused who were allegedly going to sell a pangolin for Rs 15 thousand.

The 11 accused are from Porbandar, Junagadh, Rajkot, Jamnagar and Dwarka. They captured a pangolin at the Kutiyana Jamjodhpur border. They had planned to sell it for Rs 15 thousand. However, the Kutiyana forest department managed to find them before selling it. Some of them are nabbed and other absconding accused are yet to be nabbed.

The accused are: Bhikhu Modhvadiya (age 44, Porbandar), Malde Lakha (age 42, Porbandar, Viram alias Sudho Deva Karavadra (age 51, Kunvadar), Arjan DEva Sanjva (age 49, Bhanvad), Rama Rana Odedara (age 27, Prasala), Dinesh Joshi (age 54, Ratanpara vadi area), Lakhman alias Lakhan Daya Mev (age 18, Jamjodhpur), Jiva Pala Goriya (age 41, Kalyanpur), Vinod Uka baria (age 58, Junagadh), Natha Lakhman Odedra (age 54, Ahmedabad)

The pangolin had lost 2kg weight after being captured by the accused. It died during the treatment at the hospital. The Forest department took the help of FSL to recover the chats and recordings deleted by the accused. The accused had made a bail plea which is rejected by the Kutiyana court. DeshGujarat