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Tusks seized, four held

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: Officials of the CID Forest Cell on Sunday arrested four persons in Kunigal in Tumkur district and seized from them two elephant tusks.

The Inspector-General of Police (Forest Cell), K.S.N. Chikkerur, said the value of the seized ivory in the grey market is estimated to be about Rs. 4 lakhs. "We suspect the accused had made away with the tusks after killing an elephant in the forests in Sakleshpura taluk of Hassan district," Mr. Chikkerur told The Hindu on Monday.

The names of those arrested were given as Suresh (30) and Saifulla alias Babu, both of Channarayapatna in Hassan district; Nagesh (30) of Alur taluk in Hassan district; and Dayananda Bhat (31) of Bangalore.

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