India, Sept. 17 -- The Supreme Court on Wednesday sought the response of the Centre on a petition raising alarm over an organised tiger poaching syndicate comprising smugglers, and hawala operators involved in illegal trafficking of tiger body parts outside the country and seeking an independent probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to track down this network operating across states.

A bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Bhushan R Gavai and justice K Vinod Chandran issued notice on a petition filed by lawyer Gaurav Kumar Bansal, who drew the court's attention to a report submitted this June by a special investigation team (SIT) that highlighted how tigers in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh were being targeted while using th...