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This is an archive article published on July 18, 2014
Foresters bring rescued baby croc to court, irked judge questions sense
The two-month-old crocodile found by forest officials will be sent to Indroda Park in Gandhinagar.
Two forest officials carried a two-month-old crocodile, floating in a jar of water, to the metropolitan court in Ahmedabad on Thursday, a day after it was rescued from a doctor’s house. To the utter surprise of the forest officials, the court wasn’t amused at all.
Instead, it made Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate A S Desai very angry, who asked them, “If you catch a tiger will you bring it to me as well?”
Desai made several enquiries about the crocodile baby, after which he directed the officials to take it back to its natural habitat.
The foresters said it will be sent to Indroda Park in Gandhinagar.
The forest officials also produced two persons — Hiren Patel, who runs an aquarium at Shahpur, and Kannan Nadar, a resident of Memnagar in Ahmedabad, accused of having sold the crocodile to the doctor, Himansu Khara, who is, at present, in Singapore.
The forest officials told the court that the crocodile was found in the backyard of Khara’s home at Mahalakhsmi Society in Sabarmati area. The crocodile is about 30-cm-long and about two-month-old. The officials said the crocodile was found in a jar in the backyard of the house, along with a piece of meat.
Earlier, the forest officials struggled to find the right court to bring their case. They had first gone to Ahmedabad district court, where they were told to go the metropolitan court. The officials went shutting from one court to another, until they came to know that their case falls under the jurisdiction of Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate A S Desai.
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