<p> A man has been arrested in north Delhi’s Inderlok for attempting to sell horns of spotted deer for Rs 2 lakh each, police said on Thursday.<br /><br /></p>.<p>A case under the Wildlife Protection Act has been registered against Sampann Sharma, 40, who hails from Uttar Pradesh’s Moradabad district, after four horns were recovered from him.<br /><br />“Sampann claimed that the horns belonged to his grandfather, but he was looking to sell them through a man in Inderlok,” said A K Singh, additional deputy commissioner of police (north).<br /><br />He was busted after a tip-off on Wednesday.“We had received secret information that a smuggler of spotted deer horns will come at Furkania Masjid in a car,” Singh said.<br /><br />A raiding party near Furkania Masjid T-Point stopped a car at 7.30 pm at the instance of informer.<br /><br />“Two gunny bags containing four horns were recovered on search of the car,” Singh added.<br /><br />Sampann later told police that he took up smuggling after incurring losses in several businesses, including brassware and manufacture of corrugated boxes.<br /><br />In January, he took loans from his friends and relatives and started a catering business. But he had to wind it up in September, as he again faced a big loss.<br /><br />Singh said Sampann was under pressure to pay back his loans. So he decided to sell the spotted deer horns from his grandfather’s time.<br /></p>
<p> A man has been arrested in north Delhi’s Inderlok for attempting to sell horns of spotted deer for Rs 2 lakh each, police said on Thursday.<br /><br /></p>.<p>A case under the Wildlife Protection Act has been registered against Sampann Sharma, 40, who hails from Uttar Pradesh’s Moradabad district, after four horns were recovered from him.<br /><br />“Sampann claimed that the horns belonged to his grandfather, but he was looking to sell them through a man in Inderlok,” said A K Singh, additional deputy commissioner of police (north).<br /><br />He was busted after a tip-off on Wednesday.“We had received secret information that a smuggler of spotted deer horns will come at Furkania Masjid in a car,” Singh said.<br /><br />A raiding party near Furkania Masjid T-Point stopped a car at 7.30 pm at the instance of informer.<br /><br />“Two gunny bags containing four horns were recovered on search of the car,” Singh added.<br /><br />Sampann later told police that he took up smuggling after incurring losses in several businesses, including brassware and manufacture of corrugated boxes.<br /><br />In January, he took loans from his friends and relatives and started a catering business. But he had to wind it up in September, as he again faced a big loss.<br /><br />Singh said Sampann was under pressure to pay back his loans. So he decided to sell the spotted deer horns from his grandfather’s time.<br /></p>
