A Delhi court sent poaching kingpin and smuggler Sansar Chand to 10 days Central Bureau of Investigation remand on Friday.
Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Manoj Jain handed over Chand to the agency accepting its plea that the accused needs to be taken to Alwar, Sariska, Bandipore and other wildlife parks in connection with the investigations.
Chand has been charged with having a major role in disappearance of tigers from Sariska and other national parks.
Nicknamed Veerappan of North India, 50-year-old Chand was nabbed from a house in Patel Nagar in west Delhi after a three-month-long hunt.
Chand has over 40 cases under the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972 registered against him in Delhi, Rajasthan, Uttaranchal, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had directed CBI to probe the disappearance of tigers from Sariska.
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