NEW DELHI: The dirty double-storey building with a couple of kids playing inside was hardly any different from other homes in Gurgaon’s Suratnagar area. But when Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) officials, with Gurgaon cops in tow, walked into one of the rooms on the first floor and opened a polythene bag kept there, they immediately knew the informer was on the ball. The bag contained 15 kg of tiger bones.
“Tiger bones and body parts — penis, testicles, canines — all highly valued in the illegal international market, were part of the haul. The tiger’s fat was also kept in a bottle. It was a fresh kill,” says B S Gurum, assistant director, WCCB, who took part in the Monday evening raid. Nobody was arrested.