Czech insect ‘thief’ gets 4 years
10 September, 2008
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Czech insect ‘thief’ gets 4 years
Darjeeling (West Bengal), September 10, 2008:
In India’s fastest legal trial for a wildlife case, Emil Kucera, one of the Czech nationals convicted for illegally collecting rare insect species from Singhalila National Park, was sentenced to three years imprisonment by the Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) of Darjeeling, today. He was also given a fine of Indian Rupees (INR) 50,000, while the second convict, Petr Svacha was given a fine of INR 20,000.
This is the first case of conviction and sentencing under India’s Biological Diversity Act, 2002 (BDA) and is historic for also being the quickest trial, lasting less than three months from arrest to sentencing.
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