Sundergarh Forest Division officials arrested five people and forwarded them to court on Thursday allegedly for killing a wild boar. Forest officials also seized about 500 grams meat and some portion of the skin of the wild boar from the spot.
Sources said, acting on a tip off on Wednesday night about killing of a wild boar in Khesra forest under Jamtalia forest section under Bhasma police station of Sundargarh, a forest officials’ team rushed to Goijor village and found meat of wild boar.
The accused persons were identified as Jasketan Meher (60), Nityanand Meher (28), Rukman Naik (42), Mahendra Naik (40) and Chandra Kishan (40).
During investigation, forest officials came to know that the five accused had fixed a local bomb by putting some goat meat on it. When the wild boar came to eat the meat, the bomb had exploded and wild boar died.