A local court rejected the bail petition of three accused in the case pertaining to hunting down nine rare breed deer in a wildlife sanctuary. Additional sessions judge Mithi turned down the bail plea of three people who had been caught by local people and handed them over to police. Earlier, the police had produced three deer hunters in the court of Judicial Magistrate Mithi and sought their physical remand. The magistrate had granted one day’s physical remand of the accused to the police.The police said that another case has also been filed against the accused under the Sindh Wildlife Act. Locals on Tuesday confronted and caught three deer hunters among five who had killed nine rare-breed deer in a wildlife sanctuary near Chelhar in Tharparkar district. Two hunters managed to escape from the scene.

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