Keonjhar: Forest department has arrested five poachers in connection with electrocution of a tusker on Friday near Bhadimara village under Telkoi range in Keonjhar forest division.
The accused persons have been identified as Santosh Munda of Rugudi village, Mithun Padhan, Putru Padhan, Sudarshan Munda, and Jitu Munda of Jansanpur village. Today they were taken to the spot for crime scene recreation.
These poachers had allegedly laid a trap using live electric wire to hunt wild boar. They had charged the trap by hooking a live 11 KV transmission line at a distance of about one kilometre. Today they demonstrated how they had laid the trap using live wire for hunting wild boar.
The accused persons had tried to destroy evidence following the death of a tusker which got electrocuted after coming in contact with the live trap laid by them.
They had removed the wire and the glass bottles used in the trap. However, some wooden stakes were found at the spot. They had dumped the wire in a pond at Rugudi village.
Forest department has seized the wire and the bottles used in the trap.
