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Forest men plant snakes, extort money
Officials Used Method To Harass Tourists
Radha Venkatesan | TNN
Coimbatore
Over the last few years, two senior forest officials in western Tamil Nadu have been stealthily stashing red sand boa, an endangered species of snake, in the cars of tourists coming to Pollachi and Udumalpet nearCoimbatore
Several tourists are said to have quietly paid the money fearing harassment. But the lid was blown off the snake scam recently when a group of real estate agents from Wayanad in Kerala arrived in Pollachi to look up some property. Police said Abubakker, Sundaram and Mohandas came to Sirumugai on July 26 and met a real estate broker, KS Jose, at Sirumugai for buying land in Pollachi. Jose is said to have taken them around Pollachi in a car. When the car reached Sultanpet, G Sivakumar, a lecturer in the forest college at Vaigai Dam, who was in uniform and assistant conservator of forests R Nedunchezian arrived on the scene. They stopped the car for a “routine inspection” and found a snake in the trunk of the vehicle. Sivakumar then allegedly asked the real estate agents to part with Rs 5 lakh or face imprisonment. ……………………………
Over the last few years, two senior forest officials in western Tamil Nadu have been stealthily stashing red sand boa, an endangered species of snake, in the cars of tourists coming to Pollachi and Udumalpet near
Several tourists are said to have quietly paid the money fearing harassment. But the lid was blown off the snake scam recently when a group of real estate agents from Wayanad in Kerala arrived in Pollachi to look up some property. Police said Abubakker, Sundaram and Mohandas came to Sirumugai on July 26 and met a real estate broker, KS Jose, at Sirumugai for buying land in Pollachi. Jose is said to have taken them around Pollachi in a car. When the car reached Sultanpet, G Sivakumar, a lecturer in the forest college at Vaigai Dam, who was in uniform and assistant conservator of forests R Nedunchezian arrived on the scene. They stopped the car for a “routine inspection” and found a snake in the trunk of the vehicle. Sivakumar then allegedly asked the real estate agents to part with Rs 5 lakh or face imprisonment. ……………………………
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