A suspended Forester, who was summoned to the Athagarh DFO office for questioning in connection with the recovery of a skeleton of an elephant, escaped by scaling the boundary wall of the office on Saturday.
The Forester was identified as Manoj Das.
Earlier, the Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (PCCF) had suspended t Das and Badamba Ranger Suresh Sarangi.
“We had brought Manoj for questioning. We have security arrangements near the gate. However, he managed to escape by jumping the boundary wall of the office campus,” said ACF Harekrushna Mallik.
Notably, as many as six persons including a Forest Guard, three Forest Watchers were also arrested in connection with the case. Later, they were forwarded to court after their arrest.
Earlier this month, the Special Task Force (STF) of the Crime Branch had unearthed an elephant skeleton from the Athagarh Forest Division.