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Daltonganj, Sept 23: A 20 cm long and 6 cm in circumference tusk weighing about 250 gms has been retrieved in the jungles of Latu under the Bareysanr range of the Palamu Tiger Reserve.
Mukesh Kumar, deputy director South division of PTR, confirmed the retrieval. “Our boys had a tip-off about the deal of the wildlife trophy in the jungles of Latu and so they were out there. The dubious elements who wanted to sell and buy it on hearing the footsteps of our scouring team in the jungles abandoned it and fled from the scene which our team took in its possession,” he said.
The tusk appears to be old. Latu jungles are in the vicinity of the Burha Pahar and this tusk could be of any elephant which might have been blown up in the improvised explosive device there and then its tusks had then shot off, later collected by someone who wanted to sell it.
