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Tuesday, August 25, 1998
Deer was meant for embassys taffer's dinner, fears Maneka
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, August 24: Minister of State for Welfare and animal rights activist Maneka Gandhi has written to the US embassy asking for an explanation on the report in Express Newsline of an embassy cook caught travelling with a Hog Deer, an endangered species. Gandhi said she apprehended that the deer was meant for the dinner table of an embassy staffer. Gandhi said that this was not the first time US embassy officials were guilty of breaking India's Wild Life Act. A year ago she had charged the the former US ambassador Frank Wisner with hunting endangered species in India and distributing the meat to friends. The embassy had refused to confirm or deny her charge, she said.Today the embassy spokesperson said that the cook might have been working with them earlier, but categorically stated that he was on the embassy rolls at present. When asked whether his contract had been renewed as he claimed, the spokesperson insisted that ``he was not on the rolls at present''. Deputy Commissioner of Police (south-west) district Pradeep Kumar Bharadwaj today told Express Newsline that the case had been handed over to the office of the Chief Wildlife Warden. Copyright © 1998 Indian Express Newspapers (Bombay) Ltd.
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