'Spy camera' helps catch armed intruders in Chitwan National Park wearing military uniforms

Ram Sharan Bik, who entered the park wearing an army uniform and carrying a loaded gun, has finally been taken into custody with the help of spy cameras. Both security and technology are active for protection.

Chaitra 5, 2082

Ramesh Kumar Paudel

'Spy camera' helps catch armed intruders in Chitwan National Park wearing military uniforms

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Ram Sharan BK, wearing army uniform and carrying a loaded gun, would hardly have been caught if such a picture had not come to the attention of Chitwan National Park officials. The picture of BK and another person entering the park was captured by a spy camera placed in the forest and sent to the park information room. The park has been installing spy cameras in sensitive areas for some time.

‘Patrols are being carried out. In addition, we have also taken the help of technology in specific places. Spy cameras have also given us significant success in the recent past,’ said Senior Conservation Officer Ganesh Pant, who is also the head of Chitwan National Park. On Asad 12, a picture sent by one of the spy cameras placed in the park shocked the park officials.

Two people wearing army uniforms were seen in the picture. They were carrying weapons and bags. The park team immediately became active. Although one person was caught. He was Akkal Bahadur BK of Parsagarhi Municipality in Parsa district. But Ram Sharan BK could not be caught immediately. Ram Sharan was a person who was convicted in the rhinoceros case and released after serving his sentence. According to the details received from the park office, BK had earlier been sentenced to 15 years in prison by Chitwan National Park in the rhinoceros case in 2067 BS. The Supreme Court had reduced it to 10 years. The park officials concluded that BK, who was released after serving his sentence, had entered the park with an accomplice with the intention and plan to kill rhinos again. The search for him intensified. It took five months to catch Ram Sharan BK, also known as Rakesh Lamgade of Levat, Hetauda Sub-metropolitan City-3, Makawanpur. A joint team of the Chitwan National Park Office and the Nepal Army's New Gorakh Battalion deployed for security in the park had taken BK under control from the old Parsa Bazaar area of ​​Khairhani Municipality-6, Chitwan on November 11.

The Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of the police had to help him in capturing him. Chitwan National Park has filed a case against BK for attempting to kill rhinos, said Conservation Officer Avinash Thapa Magar, Information Officer of Chitwan National Park. In addition, a case of arms and ammunition has also been filed since he was caught with a loaded gun.

Information Officer of the park Avinash Thapa Magar informed that the court has demanded a bail of Rs 200,000 for BK in the rhino case. An order was issued to send him to custody for trial in the arms and ammunition case.

Due to which he is currently in jail . The same case was filed against Akkal Bahadur BK, who was arrested before that, and the court order was also similar . But Akkal Bahadur, who was released from Bharatpur Jail on the morning of Bhadra 25 due to the Genji movement, did not return to the prison, said Information Officer Thapa Magar. He said that the search for Akkal Bahadur, including those who are absconding from prison in rhinoceros and other wildlife cases, has been intensified . After the Genji movement, 17 people who are in Bharatpur Jail in wildlife cases including rhinoceros are absconding . 

Such spy cameras are installed in 25 different places in the park . The spy camera's sensor takes photos immediately  and sends them . Although the patrol team is immediately activated, it is sometimes difficult to catch them immediately because they are far away, said Senior Conservation Officer of the park, Panta. There are also seven drones in the park and they are also used in special situations.

Chitwan National Park is the main habitat of rare wildlife such as the great one-horned rhinoceros and the leopard. Since these animals are also killed by poachers, the park administration and the Nepali Army stationed there have been active in protecting them. Around eight hundred soldiers are stationed in the park. Pant says that they have also taken the help of technology to stop the challenge of poachers.

Most recently, in mid-October 2080, two rhinos were killed by smugglers in Chaparchuli, the eastern area of ​​the park, by forcing them into a pit. The park administration claims that no rhinos have been killed by poachers since then. There is a legal provision that punishes the killing of rare wild animals including rhinos and tigers, and the trading and transportation of their parts with a fine of up to one million rupees or imprisonment for up to 15 years, or both imprisonment and fine.

Ramesh

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