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Foresters fire in air to scare bootleggers ( In Barda, proposed home for lions)

11-08-2008

Foresters fire in air to scare bootleggers ( In Barda, proposed home for lions)

Times of India

 

A team of forest officials, who had raided liquor units at Mount Barada in Porbandar city on off a crowd of bootleggers who pelted stones at them. The officials conducted a raid following a tip-off that several countrymade liquor units operated at Mount Barada. "When the team, led by range forest officer Gilan Godhaniya, raided units owned by bootlegger, Jesa Rabari, they were attacked by Jesa's associates with stones," said a forest official. "The officials had to resorts to firing in the air to stop the heavy pelting," he added. The department has registered a case against Jesa.

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