Four men arrested for gang-raping monitor lizard in Western India | By: Adebayo Akinkunmi

4 males have been arrested after one of many accused’s telephones was found to include a video of them gang-raping a Bengal monitor lizard on the Sahydari Tiger Reserve in Maharashthra, India.

CCTV footage from the Maharashtra Forest Division confirmed the 4 males lurking across the forest and trespassing into the Sahyadri Tiger Reserve, which was created by the Indian authorities in 2008 to preserve Bengal tigers.

Along with the video of the lads sexually abusing the monitor lizard, officers additionally discovered photographs of varied animals equivalent to porcupines and deer on the mens’ telephones.

Bengal monitor lizards can develop as much as 5 and a half ft lengthy and weigh nearly 16 kilos. They’re at present categorized as reserve species beneath the Wildlife Safety Act of 1972.

Forest guards initially solely caught one of many accused, whereas the others fled. The remaining three have been later present in Hativ village within the Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra. Officers mentioned the lads got here to Kolhapur’s Chandoli village from Konkan to hunt.

The 4 hunters have been recognized as Sandeep Tukram, Pawar Mangesh, Janardhan Kamtekar and Akshay Sunil.

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The case was taken to the Indian Penal Court docket to debate correct authorized motion and costs in opposition to the 4 males. In keeping with the Indian Penal Code, Part 377 states that anybody who voluntarily commits intercourse with an animal “shall be punished with imprisonment for all times, or with imprisonment of both description for a time period which can lengthen to 10 years, and shall even be liable to advantageous.”

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