Miscreants killed a sambar, which had entered into the Garabandha Beat-2 human habitation area under Gajapati districts Goshani block, and cut away its back leg for meat on Friday morning.Forest officials recovered the half-butchered body from a canal near Nilapur village. Miscreants were yet to be arrested.According to reports, the sambar had come into the human habitation in search of food late on Thursday night. But it couldn’t return into jungle as it got dawn soon. While the animal was hiding in a sugarcane field, some villagers killed it.
Upon being informed, a team of forest personnel led by Narayanpur Forest Ranger rushed to the spot. Seeing them, the miscreants fled away leaving the half-cut sambar behind.“A case has been registered. We would soon arrest the miscreants who have killed the sambar,” said Forestor Prakash Chandra Bishoyi.