Man pleads guilty to illegal hunting — to do one week community service

A PRINCES Town magistrate ordered a Tableland man to do one week community service after the man pleaded guilty to catching birds during the closed hunting season. Magistrate Suimongol Ramsaran also gave Deonath Ramsubhag, of Lothians Road, the option to pay a fine of $700. Ramsubhag, who is unemployed, chose to do one week’s community service.

The defendant was charged after he was found by policemen of the South Special Unit, led by Forest Ranger Andy Singh, in a forested area near Pooran Trace, Tableland on Tuesday. The officers caught Ramsubagh red-handed in the process of capturing birds. The officers also found two semps and a parakeet in a cage nearby. Police seized the birds and when Ramsubhag was brought to court on Wednesday, the birds were produced as exhibits in the case. Magistrate Ramsaran allowed the birds to be returned to the defendant.