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Police arrest three persons with 50Kg medicinal herb

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Srinagar: Police on Monday said that they arrested three persons along with an endangered Trillium Govanianum medicinal herb in Qalamabad of North Kashmir’s Handwara.
In a statement issued here police said that on June 26th, a police party of Police Station Qalamabad while on naka checking duty at Lach, Qalamabad, stopped one vehicle bearing Regd. No. JK09/2155.
The persons in the vehicle were identified as, Shafiq Ahmad Khan son of Ali Mohammad, Reyaz Ahmad Khan son of Aziz Rehman Khan both residents of Mankal and Jameel Ahmad Mir son of Ghulam Mohammad resident of Check Sanzipora. On search, endangered medicinal herb Trillium Govanianum (Local name Tri Patri) weighing around 50 kg was recovered from their possession.
All the three have been arrested and a case FIR No. 39/2022 U/s 26 Forest Act, 379-IPC stands registered in PS Qalamabad and investigation has been initiated, read the statement.
Trillium govanianum Wall. ex D. Don (Family Trilliaceae) is a threatened medicinal plant of the Himalayan region that has much therapeutic value. It is also known as Himalayan trillium or Nagchhatri with important phytoconstituents named as steroid saponins which are extensively used in the pharmaceutical industry. The root extract of plants has analgesic, anti-inflammatory, anticancer, antifungal and wound healing properties.


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