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    Mask of Piety: WCCB Have To Take Legal Action Against All Offenders - Miss Sukanya Kadyan

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    Status as on 24 Feb 2014 Registration Number : MOEAF/E/2014/00093 Name Of Complainant : Abhishek Kadyan Date of Receipt : 24 Feb 2014 Received by : Ministry of Environment and Forests Officer name : Shri Anil Sant Officer Designation : Joint Secretary Contact Address : Room No.417, 4th Floor Paryavaran Bhavan, CGO Complex New Delhi110003 Contact Number : 24360634 Grievance Description : Please find attached here with the news article of Hindustan Times and I have spoken with the reporter Vikramjit Singh about the source of news and he confirmed the facts. The United Nation affiliated OIPA - Indian People for Animals shocked to know that Chief Wildlife Warde of Chandigarh failed to perform his official duties, taking legal action against 5 Institutions, he returned the articles to the offenders back with out investigating the source of procurement, there are many more Institutions have objectionable wild animal specimens but due to failure of CWLW, Chandigarh, these offenders got safe passage to destroy the objectionable specimens, if any body found custodian of ban wild animal specimen's then all needs to be prosecuted, as per law of the land, there are no other way to escape. Like wise Baba Madho Singh, who runs Gurdwara Nanaksar Ishardam within the Harike Wildlife Sanctuary, has courted controversy over wildlife-related matters. On a recent visit to the sanctuary to show migratory birds to schoolkids, former Punjab chief wildlife warden Gurmit Singh, and former additional director, National Wildlife Crime Control Bureau, BS Gurm, of the Nature Conservation Society noticed something amiss in the Baba’s aviary. The cage situated within the gurdwara premises housed a pair of Alexandrine parakeets, which are wild Indian birds covered under the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972, and whose private possession is banned and punishable. The cage was mainly housing mutants of the exotic African species, Masked Lovebirds, whose sale and private possession is legal in India. When reporter asked the Baba, he said, “The parakeets had been given to someone to release in the jungle’’. The Baba did not reveal from where he had procured these parakeets. The illegal possession of parakeets by the Baba had not been taken notice of by the forests and wildlife department. Hence we demands: 1. Immediate rescue and legal action against Baba Madho Singh. 2. FIR and legal action against all Institutions, custodian of wild animal specimens, in which 5 offenders got back their objectionable trophies, specimens and handed over by the CWLW of Chandigarh, 120-B read with 420 IPC needs to be imposed including CWLW of Chandigarh. 3. The Wildlife Crime Control Bureau - WCCB may kindly be directed to conduct raids to recover objectionable wild animal specimens from the illegal custody in Chandigarh. 4. CBSE may kindly be directed to de affiliate all tainted Institutions for not obeying their Instructions and it is further required to investigate the source of supply. 5.OIPA - Indian People for Animals served notice under section 55 of the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972 to take strict legal action against all offenders.

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    Status as on 24 Feb 2014 Registration Number : MOEAF/E/2014/00093 Name Of Complainant : Abhishek Kadyan Date of Receipt : 24 Feb 2014 Received by : Ministry of Environment and Forests Officer name : Shri Anil Sant Officer Designation : Joint Secretary Contact Address : Room No.417, 4th Floor Paryavaran Bhavan, CGO Complex New Delhi110003 Contact Number : 24360634 Grievance Description : Please find attached here with the news article of Hindustan Times and I have spoken with the reporter Vikramjit Singh about the source of news and he confirmed the facts. The United Nation affiliated OIPA - Indian People for Animals shocked to know that Chief Wildlife Warde of Chandigarh failed to perform his official duties, taking legal action against 5 Institutions, he returned the articles to the offenders back with out investigating the source of procurement, there are many more Institutions have objectionable wild animal specimens but due to failure of CWLW, Chandigarh, these offenders got safe passage to destroy the objectionable specimens, if any body found custodian of ban wild animal specimen's then all needs to be prosecuted, as per law of the land, there are no other way to escape. Like wise Baba Madho Singh, who runs Gurdwara Nanaksar Ishardam within the Harike Wildlife Sanctuary, has courted controversy over wildlife-related matters. On a recent visit to the sanctuary to show migratory birds to schoolkids, former Punjab chief wildlife warden Gurmit Singh, and former additional director, National Wildlife Crime Control Bureau, BS Gurm, of the Nature Conservation Society noticed something amiss in the Baba’s aviary. The cage situated within the gurdwara premises housed a pair of Alexandrine parakeets, which are wild Indian birds covered under the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972, and whose private possession is banned and punishable. The cage was mainly housing mutants of the exotic African species, Masked Lovebirds, whose sale and private possession is legal in India. When reporter asked the Baba, he said, “The parakeets had been given to someone to release in the jungle’’. The Baba did not reveal from where he had procured these parakeets. The illegal possession of parakeets by the Baba had not been taken notice of by the forests and wildlife department. Hence we demands: 1. Immediate rescue and legal action against Baba Madho Singh. 2. FIR and legal action against all Institutions, custodian of wild animal specimens, in which 5 offenders got back their objectionable trophies, specimens and handed over by the CWLW of Chandigarh, 120-B read with 420 IPC needs to be imposed including CWLW of Chandigarh. 3. The Wildlife Crime Control Bureau - WCCB may kindly be directed to conduct raids to recover objectionable wild animal specimens from the illegal custody in Chandigarh. 4. CBSE may kindly be directed to de affiliate all tainted Institutions for not obeying their Instructions and it is further required to investigate the source of supply. 5.OIPA - Indian People for Animals served notice under section 55 of the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972 to take strict legal action against all offenders.

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    Status as on 24 Feb 2014 Registration Number : MOEAF/E/2014/00093 Name Of Complainant : Abhishek Kadyan Date of Receipt : 24 Feb 2014 Received by : Ministry of Environment and Forests Officer name : Shri Anil Sant Officer Designation : Joint Secretary Contact Address : Room No.417, 4th Floor Paryavaran Bhavan, CGO Complex New Delhi110003 Contact Number : 24360634 Grievance Description : Please find attached here with the news article of Hindustan Times and I have spoken with the reporter Vikramjit Singh about the source of news and he confirmed the facts. The United Nation affiliated OIPA - Indian People for Animals shocked to know that Chief Wildlife Warde of Chandigarh failed to perform his official duties, taking legal action against 5 Institutions, he returned the articles to the offenders back with out investigating the source of procurement, there are many more Institutions have objectionable wild animal specimens but due to failure of CWLW, Chandigarh, these offenders got safe passage to destroy the objectionable specimens, if any body found custodian of ban wild animal specimen's then all needs to be prosecuted, as per law of the land, there are no other way to escape. Like wise Baba Madho Singh, who runs Gurdwara Nanaksar Ishardam within the Harike Wildlife Sanctuary, has courted controversy over wildlife-related matters. On a recent visit to the sanctuary to show migratory birds to schoolkids, former Punjab chief wildlife warden Gurmit Singh, and former additional director, National Wildlife Crime Control Bureau, BS Gurm, of the Nature Conservation Society noticed something amiss in the Baba’s aviary. The cage situated within the gurdwara premises housed a pair of Alexandrine parakeets, which are wild Indian birds covered under the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972, and whose private possession is banned and punishable. The cage was mainly housing mutants of the exotic African species, Masked Lovebirds, whose sale and private possession is legal in India. When reporter asked the Baba, he said, “The parakeets had been given to someone to release in the jungle’’. The Baba did not reveal from where he had procured these parakeets. The illegal possession of parakeets by the Baba had not been taken notice of by the forests and wildlife department. Hence we demands: 1. Immediate rescue and legal action against Baba Madho Singh. 2. FIR and legal action against all Institutions, custodian of wild animal specimens, in which 5 offenders got back their objectionable trophies, specimens and handed over by the CWLW of Chandigarh, 120-B read with 420 IPC needs to be imposed including CWLW of Chandigarh. 3. The Wildlife Crime Control Bureau - WCCB may kindly be directed to conduct raids to recover objectionable wild animal specimens from the illegal custody in Chandigarh. 4. CBSE may kindly be directed to de affiliate all tainted Institutions for not obeying their Instructions and it is further required to investigate the source of supply. 5.OIPA - Indian People for Animals served notice under section 55 of the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972 to take strict legal action against all offenders.

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    Mask of Piety: WCCB Have To Take Legal Action Against All Offenders - Miss Sukanya Kadyan

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    Status as on 24 Feb 2014 Registration Number : MOEAF/E/2014/00093 Name Of Complainant : Abhishek Kadyan Date of Receipt : 24 Feb 2014 Received by : Ministry of Environment and Forests Officer name : Shri Anil Sant Officer Designation : Joint Secretary Contact Address : Room No.417, 4th Floor Paryavaran Bhavan, CGO Complex New Delhi110003 Contact Number : 24360634 Grievance Description : Please find attached here with the news article of Hindustan Times and I have spoken with the reporter Vikramjit Singh about the source of news and he confirmed the facts. The United Nation affiliated OIPA - Indian People for Animals shocked to know that Chief Wildlife Warde of Chandigarh failed to perform his official duties, taking legal action against 5 Institutions, he returned the articles to the offenders back with out investigating the source of procurement, there are many more Institutions have objectionable wild animal specimens but due to failure of CWLW, Chandigarh, these offenders got safe passage to destroy the objectionable specimens, if any body found custodian of ban wild animal specimen's then all needs to be prosecuted, as per law of the land, there are no other way to escape. Like wise Baba Madho Singh, who runs Gurdwara Nanaksar Ishardam within the Harike Wildlife Sanctuary, has courted controversy over wildlife-related matters. On a recent visit to the sanctuary to show migratory birds to schoolkids, former Punjab chief wildlife warden Gurmit Singh, and former additional director, National Wildlife Crime Control Bureau, BS Gurm, of the Nature Conservation Society noticed something amiss in the Baba’s aviary. The cage situated within the gurdwara premises housed a pair of Alexandrine parakeets, which are wild Indian birds covered under the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972, and whose private possession is banned and punishable. The cage was mainly housing mutants of the exotic African species, Masked Lovebirds, whose sale and private possession is legal in India. When reporter asked the Baba, he said, “The parakeets had been given to someone to release in the jungle’’. The Baba did not reveal from where he had procured these parakeets. The illegal possession of parakeets by the Baba had not been taken notice of by the forests and wildlife department. Hence we demands: 1. Immediate rescue and legal action against Baba Madho Singh. 2. FIR and legal action against all Institutions, custodian of wild animal specimens, in which 5 offenders got back their objectionable trophies, specimens and handed over by the CWLW of Chandigarh, 120-B read with 420 IPC needs to be imposed including CWLW of Chandigarh. 3. The Wildlife Crime Control Bureau - WCCB may kindly be directed to conduct raids to recover objectionable wild animal specimens from the illegal custody in Chandigarh. 4. CBSE may kindly be directed to de affiliate all tainted Institutions for not obeying their Instructions and it is further required to investigate the source of supply. 5.OIPA - Indian People for Animals served notice under section 55 of the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972 to take strict legal action against all offenders.

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    MASK OF PIETY

    Vikram Jit Singh February 23, 2014

    This is not the first time that Baba Madho Singh, who runs Gurdwara Nanaksar Ishardam within the Harike Wildlife Sanctuary, has courted controversy over wildlife-related matters. On a recent visit to the sanctuary to show migratory birds to schoolkids, former Punjab chief wildlife warden Gurmit Singh, and former additional director, National Wildlife Crime Control Bureau, BS Gurm, of the Nature Conservation Society noticed something amiss in the Babas aviary. The cage situated within the gurdwara premises housed a pair of Alexandrine parakeets, which are wild Indian birds covered under the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972, and whose private possession is banned and punishable. The cage was mainly housing mutants of the exotic African species, Masked Lovebirds, whose sale and private possession is legal in India. When this writer asked the Baba, he said, The

    parakeets had been given to someone to release in the jungle. The Baba did not reveal from where he had procured these parakeets. The illegal possession of parakeets by the Baba had not been taken notice of by the forests and wildlife department. Divisional forest officer (DFO), wildlife, at Harike, Pritima Shrivastava promised to look into the matter, and photographs of the caged parakeets have been emailed to her on February 17. However, there has been no response from the department yet. SURRENDER TO SCHOOLS Five of Chandigarhs educational institutes have complied with the orders of chief wildlife warden Santosh Kumar to surrender wildlife specimens maintained in their laboratories. These are: Carmel Convent, St Johns High School, MCM DAV College for Women, Sacred Heart Senior Secondary School and Ishwar Singh Dev Samaj Senior Secondary School. Some specimens, such as certain fish species, have been kept out of the purview of the surrender as these are not covered by the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972. Kumar says that Sacred Heart was initially not cooperative with the wildlife department in the surrender. What the department has done is that the specimens have been made government property, certificates granted to the schools, and specimens sent back to the possession of the schools to be produced whenever required. The CBSE directive, as also the initial orders of the UT, seek a surrender to the department. Kumar says that he has written to the ministry of environment and forests seeking a solution for the possession of specimens, and pending that these will remain with the schools. The department is also sending reminders for compliance through the education department to the following schools, which have been tardy in the submission of their specimens: Government Senior Secondary Schools (Mauli Jagran, Sectors 47D, 19C) and Government High Schools (Sectors 46C, 7C). The issue is significant in light of the raids last year by animal rights NGOs and the police on schools, as well as the arrest on January 31 of Karandeep Brar, director, St. Soldier International Convent School in Phase 7, SAS Nagar, on the grounds of keeping 15 jars of preserved illegal wildlife specimens. Illegal specimens are mostly sourced from Agra. THIS SIDE OF PARADISE

    Nature recognises no visual distinctions of beauty and the beast. Birds gobble insects. Spiders may eat beautiful birds. It is all about killing, surviving, mating and ensuring the reproductive success of the species. There is a particular spider, the Giant wood spider or Golden silk orb weaver spider (Nephila pilipes jalorensis), whose female species can grow to a gigantic size. The females, like in the case of raptors, are larger than males in this spider species. The web of this spider is spectacular, reckoned by some experts to be even stronger than Kevlar. The web is stretched and sticky and can trap birds, such as the Asian paradise flycatcher (see photo) or a Grasshopper warbler. This spiders standard diet, though, is grasshoppers, mantises and butterflies. Larger birds trapped in this spiders web can escape after thrashing about, but not before damaging their own wings, as also the web they were caught in. Smaller birds caught in the web may die and be partially eaten by this spider. However, other experts contend that the spider may not relish birds being caught in its web as it causes damage. So, this spider may leave insect wings hanging on its web, like scarecrows or a skull and crossbones warning sign, to deter birds that venture close.

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