Security personnel of Thursday nabbed nine members of a gang involved in elephant poaching and seized two tusks, three country-made firearms and a sharp weapon from their possession.
During a combing operation in Kandara-Kachapaju area under the Puruna Katak police limits, the District Voluntary Force (DVF) personnel spotted these poachers in the forest.
“During a routine anti-Maoist operation inside the forest this morning, the security personnel found some people armed with
lathis and weapons moving suspiciously. The team immediately informed the Puruna Katak police station about them. A bag having two tusks cut into eight pieces, three country-made guns, gunpowder and an axe were seized from them,” Boudh SP B Gangadhar said
Of the nine arrested, three are from Boudh district and six from Narsinghpur area in Cuttack district, he added.later, the arrested persons were forwarded to court.