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SIX Persons, including a juvenile, were held by the forest department on Monday after they were allegedly caught red-handed organising an illegal lion show in revenue area Veraval taluka of Gir Somnath district. Revenue areas are not considered part of the wildlife sanctuary.
Five of the six accused were identified as Aniruddha Nathani (30), Hiren Vaishnav (28), Milan Shukla (31), Abhishek Shukla (33), Suraj Trivedi (18) and a 17-year-old boy from Visavadar town of Junagadh district. Forest officers said that Aniruddha, Milan, Abhishek and Suraj were residents of Bhavnagar district while Vaishnav was a resident of Visavadar. They were caught while Vaishnav was staging an illegal lion show.
Booked under sections related to the hunting of Schedule-I animal of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972
Some locals had protested action by the forest department saying that the lion had been roaming in the revenue area. But Wildlife (Protection) Act applies where wild animals range.