Lucknow | Golfer Jyoti Randhawa on Wednesday was arrested by the forest authorities in Uttar Pradesh’s Bahriach for alleged poaching charges in Dudhwa Tiger Reserve.
The Dudhwa Tiger reserve forest authorities have also seized a .22 rifle, a skin of wild boar, Range Finders and binoculars and a jungle fowl from Randhawa after he was arrested. Speaking on the arrest, Ramesh Pandey, field director at the Dudhwa Tiger Reserve said, “Jyoti Singh Randhawa and Mahesh Virajdar who accompanied him in the hunt have been arrested in a poaching case in Motipur range of Katerniaghat.”
The officer further added that interrogation and further legal action is being taken by the DFO (divisional forest officer) Katerniaghat and his team.” Jyoti Randhawa had been ranked in the top 100 in the World Golfing Ranking during the period of 2004 and 2009.
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