Dhaka, Dec. 16 -- A poacher was arrested by the forest guards with two and a half maunds of deer meat (venison) while smuggling deer meat from the Sundarbans early Sunday morning. The arrested poacher has been sentenced to suffer rigorous imprisonment for one year in a mobile court.

According to forest department sources, forest guards led by Forester Md. Asaduzzaman, officer-in-charge of Gyanpara Special Patrol Outpost of Sharankhola Range unde the Eastern Sundarbans Forest Division, conducted a raid in Charduani Bazar area at around 3-30 am on Sunday based on a secret tip-off and arrested deer poacher Liton Howlader (49).

At that time, forest guards seized 102 kg of deer meat filled in sacks from him. The arrested poacher is the son of ...