A team of forest officers led by Kanika Ranger Akhaya Nayak arrested a man on the charge of poaching a wild boar in the Bhitarkanika National Park area in Kendrapada district on Sunday midnight.
The team has also seized 25 kg of raw wild boar meat, a chopper and a trapping net from his possession, informed Rajnagar DFO Bimal Prasanna Acharya.
According to Nayak, he along with three others conduced a raid in the forest near Rangani village acting on a tipoff that four poachers had entered into the forest. They nabbed a taxidermist, Rajkishore Dalei, of Rangani village from the spot while he and his other associates were distributing wild boar meat among themselves after killing a wild boar. But, three other others managed to flee from the spot taking advantage of the darkness.
Rajkishore was produced before the JMFC Court at Rajnagar on Monday. He was remanded to jail custody after his bail plea was rejected.
According to information, poachers used to transport wild boar meat and venison by motorbikes at the dead of night and sell it at Dhamra, Rajkanika, Jarimula and Paradip localities. In black market, wild boar meat is sold at `220 per kg whereas the venison at `280.