KATHMANDU: The police have made public two persons arrested with body parts of a bear amid a press conference in Kathmandu on Sunday.
A team from the Central Investigation Bureau arrested one Hari Om Rasaili of Panini Rural Municipality-2 in Argakhanchi district and Bhajindra Darji of Butwal Sub Metropolitan City-3 in Rupandehi district from Gokaneshwor Municipality-5 in Kathmandu for smuggling and selling body parts of a bear.
Bear is protected animal in Nepal.
Both of the arrestees were sent to the Division Forest Office, Hattisar for investigations, said Superintendent of Police Shyam Kumar Mahato, also a spokesperson for the Bureau.
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