The Punjab wildlife department has arrested eight people for illegally selling rare birds and an endangered black bear in two separate raids on Sunday.
District officer wildlife department Rizwana Aziz, along with her team, caught a man red-handed while he was selling a black bear despite a ban on its trade in the city’s Kari road area.
Adalat Hussain, the accused, was presented in a court, where civil judge Sumair Alamgir ordered sending him jail. The judge also directed the authorities concerned to release the animal in the forest.
In a separate raid, the wildlife team recovered dozens of birds of different species in Taxila and arrested seven culprits involved in the trade of rare bird species.
The birds were released in a nearby forest in the presence of hundreds of citizens while the culprits were slapped a Rs100,000 fine.
