pune wildlife activists rescued a jackal cub from a man allegedly trying to illegally sell it for rs 12000 at a slum in the dehu road area on saturday a man had come to the area and said he would like to sell a jackal cub as words spread a local resident informed a friend of mine anish sheik he went to the area posing as a customer and told the man that he would purchase the cub for rs 12000 sheik immediately alerted me about the cub said harikiran reddy who runs an ngo wildlife welfare association reddy then went to the area and rescued the jackal cub but by then the man who was trying to sell the animal had fled we rescued the animal and handed it over to the forest department he said the incident comes a week after an unusual animal a slender loris was rescued from a slum in the city forest officials said it was difficult to confirm involvement of a racket bringing in wild animals to the city and selling those as pets on this occasion the man managed to escape last week a youth had been caught but on interrogating him we found out that he didnt know anything about the law or that he was doing something illegal if there is a racket there must be somebody running it we have not been able to reach them yet deputy conservator of forest satyajit gujar said sometimes people are unaware about the provisions of the wildlife protection act 1972 and may come across a wild animal pick it up and try to sell it as a curiosity jackal cubs are often found near sugarcane fields he said gujar however admitted that how a slender loris could land up in the city the animal is not found in this region it is more commonly found in karnataka and further south he added fortunately there are a lot of ngos and wildlife activists in pune and through their efforts we are able to rescue these animals he said gujar said that the veterinary doctors had examined the jackal cub and found that it was fit to be released into the wild and the rerelease would be done soon