{"id":1439343,"date":"2022-04-15T00:44:47","date_gmt":"2022-04-15T04:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1439343"},"modified":"2022-04-15T00:44:58","modified_gmt":"2022-04-15T04:44:58","slug":"indian-police-arrest-4-men-accused-of-gang-raping-bengal-monitor-lizard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/indian-police-arrest-4-men-accused-of-gang-raping-bengal-monitor-lizard\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Police Arrest 4 Men Accused of &#039;Gang Raping&#039; Bengal Monitor Lizard"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Findian-police-arrest-4-men-accused-of-gang-raping-bengal-monitor-lizard%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1439343&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Bengal-Monitor-Lizard-stock-getty-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Police in western India\u2019s Maharashtra state recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/other-states\/bengal-monitor-lizard-allegedly-gang-raped-in-maharashtra-forest-four-held\/article65320182.ece\">arrested<\/a> four men for allegedly \u201cgang-raping\u201d a Bengal monitor lizard, the\u00a0Press Trust of India (PTI) reported on Thursday, noting an official for the Maharashtra Forest Department confirmed the group\u2019s arrest on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The incident allegedly took place inside Maharashtra\u2019s Sahyadri Tiger Reserve and \u201ccame to light days after the four accused were booked for illegally entering Chandoli National Park, which is part of the reserve, with one of them carrying a gun for hunting,\u201d a spokesman for the Maharashtra Forest Department told reporters on April 13.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Local police originally detained the four men on March 31 for illegally entering the state forest when their alleged crime of bestiality was discovered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring the investigation, the forest officials found that the accused had allegedly raped a Bengal monitor lizard. Their act was also recorded in a mobile phone of one of the accused persons,\u201d an unnamed Maharashtra Forest official told PTI on April 13.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have recovered all the related evidence from the accused and they were granted forest department custody initially, but are out on bail now,\u201d the official added.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe four accused have been booked under various sections of the Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972,\u201d Nanasaheb Ladkat, the field director of the Sahyadri Tiger Reserve, told reporters on April 13.<\/p>\n<p><em>India Today<\/em> magazine <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/india\/story\/bengal-monitor-lizard-raped-maharashtra-3-held-sahydari-tiger-reserve-1937027-2022-04-13\">described<\/a> Maharashtra forest officials on April 14 as \u201cperplexed\u201d by the \u201cabhorrent crime\u201d and reported that they \u201cwill take up the matter with the Indian Penal Court\u201d to determine appropriate charges against the suspects.<\/p>\n<p>Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/video\/four-men-arrested-raping-bengal-012732129.html\">states<\/a> that \u201canyone who voluntarily commits intercourse with an animal \u2018shall be punished with imprisonment for life, or with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Indian Wildlife Protection Act of 1972 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/education-today\/gk-current-affairs\/story\/wildlife-protection-act-1972-enacted-on-this-day-know-about-the-act-and-its-changes-1319842-2018-08-21\">designates<\/a> the Bengal\u00a0monitor lizard as a \u201creserved\u201d or protected species. The reptile can grow \u201cup to five and a half feet long and weigh almost 16 pounds,\u201d according to the news website NextShark.<\/p>\n<p>If the suspects are convicted of harming a Bengal monitor lizard according to India\u2019s Wildlife Act, they \u201ccould be charged with seven years of imprisonment\u201d according to <em>India Today<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>PTI identified the accused men on April 14 as \u201cSandeep Tukaram Pawar, Mangesh Kamtekar, Akshay Kamtekar and Ramesh Ghag.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in western India\u2019s Maharashtra state recently arrested four men for allegedly \u201cgang-raping\u201d a Bengal monitor lizard, the\u00a0Press Trust of India (PTI) reported on Thursday, noting an official for the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1439343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1439343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1439343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1439343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1439343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}