The Talachua Marine police arrested two persons, including a woman and her son, for assaulting a Forest Guard brutally with sharp weapons and leaving him critically injured. Police station IIC Sreekant Barik said the duo was identified as Dharanidhar Behera and his mother Lilabati. While Sunil Routray, Forest Guard of Dangamal beat, was returning with other DLR staffs after conducting night patrolling to restrict the trespass of poachers to the core area of the Bhitarkanika National park, as many as seven persons, including the two arrestees, attacked the Forest Guard near their houses at Bankuala village located on the fringes of the Dangamala crocodile scheme area with an aim to eliminate him. The police informed that efforts were on to nab the other accused.