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‘Tiger’ sick or super alive to kill black buck! India is waiting to see the outcome
The former captain of Indian Cricket cites life-threatening ailment to avoid police custody after enjoying the wild poaching of a Black Buck, which is officially, endangered species in India. The million-dollar question before police: Is Tiger sick or well alive to do what he has done.
According to media reports, Former Indian cricket captain Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi may have been game for a wildlife shoot in early June but now he has cited a "life-threatening" ailment, to evade arrest in the black buck poaching case.
Pataudi, who sought anticipatory bail from the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Monday and whose petition is to be heard on Tuesday, has attached medical certificates from two leading private hospitals in New Delhi and Faridabad, saying he was suffering from diseases relating to the heart and blood vessels.
Incidentally, both medical certificates were issued by the respective hospitals on June 8. The certificates were from Escorts Hospital and Research Centre, Faridabad, and Max Devki Heart and Vascular Institute, Saket, New Delhi.
No proper medical records, other than the medical certificates issued by doctors Ashok Seth (Max Devki hospital) and NK Pandey (Escorts), were attached in the petition.
Pataudi sought exemption from submitting certified copies of medical certificates saying these were not in his possession. No past medical treatment record of Pataudi was attached in the petition either.
Ironically, Pataudi, who has been underground since June 3, while police have been raiding his places, claimed in his petition that there was no likelihood of his absconding or fleeing from justice.
Pataudi and seven others were detained by the Jhajjar Police in Haryana June 3 night after their vehicles were intercepted with the carcasses of a black buck - a protected Schedule I animal under the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972 - and two rabbits.
Instead of registering a case and following procedure by informing wildlife officials, Haryana Police let off all the eight accused after just filing a report in the Jhajjar police station. Even their weapons and vehicles were not confiscated.
The apparent laxity on the part of the Jhajjar Police even finds mention in Pataudi's petition to the court.
Pataudi claimed he was innocent and falsely implicated in the case by the Haryana Police. He said when he and the others were stopped near Jhajjar town June 3, no specific case was made against him or others and the subsequent police complaint June 5 was a "highly belated one".
He claimed that there were material discrepancies in the complaint against him and others and no common intention has been attributed to them for the crime.
Pataudi even questioned the role of the police to investigate the matter under the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972.
The petition pleaded that he had immense repute in society and imprisoning him would not serve any purpose and he wanted to join the investigations.
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