The Athagarh forest officials on Sunday arrested a poacher and seized the carcass of a deer and a motorcycle from his possession near the Mundali bridge.
The arrested person was identified as Chakradhar Rout of Kalamati village of the Narsinghpur area. Acting on a tip-off, the forest official7s chased Rout and stopped him while he was passing the Athagarh forest area with the killed deer by his motorcycle. The deer’s carcass was buried after autopsy.