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Another lion teasing video emerges, Gujarat govt says its old

Forest officials, however, dismissed the video as old and said the man in it is behind bars

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Another video of a lion being teased with a chicken as a bait emerged on Thursday, once again raising the criminal issue of teasing lions in and around Gir. Forest officials, however, dismissed the video as old and said the man in it is behind bars.

The video believed to be shot in or around Gir Gadhada are of Gir Somnath shows a man sitting on a chair luring a lioness with a live chicken in his hand. He teases the lioness for sometime before letting it catch the chicken and run away with it.

DT Vasavada, Chief Conservator of Forest, Wildlife Circle, Junagadh said that this is an old video. "The man shown in the video is Haliyar Hoth of Jhalkha village. He is in jail after an earlier video emerged of him teasing lions in a similar way," said Vasavada. "The man is in jail. This is an old video of his," said Vasavada. He said that the man was arrested and sent to jail in around May 2018. The video is believed to have been shot in Babariya range. It should be noted that earlier to a similar image of a person luring a lioness with a live chicken had done the rounds of social media following which seven people had been arrested.

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