KOLKATA: Two Czech nationals, held for allegedly smuggling specimens of beetles and moths from the northern range of the Singalila National Park in Darjeeling district on June 22, were remanded to judicial custody by a local court at a special session on Wednesday after their pleas for bail were rejected for the second time.
The insects were found in the possession of the two men, Peter Svacha and Emil Kucera — both in their Fifties — when forest officials visited them in a local hotel after being tipped off by the staff of the national park.