Even after passing of 48 hours, the Patwari involved in the poaching of a deer evaded arrest along with his accomplice even as police raided his farm house Sunday and seized a gun along, ‘sutli bombs’ and other weapons.
Notably, in Mahasamund near Parasda Patwari Manish Chandrakar has a big farmhouse. In the same farmhouse, a betting racket was unearthed two years back. According to police department sources, from Parasda, Mohandi and Chorbhatti areas news of poaching of wild animals emanate regularly.
This area is adjacent to famous Barnavapara Wildlife sanctuary and wild animals after straying out of the sanctuary reach these villages through Kodar.
To nab the two absconding accusing police had raided the farm house but failed to arrest the accused even if after two hours of search they arrested two persons besides seizing a gun, crude sutli bombs and other armaments from the farm house.
According to crime branch in-charge Subhash Pawar police are hunting for the accused but still did not find any clue about their whereabouts. Kotwali police have registered a case against the accused and are investigating further.
Meanwhile, post-mortem of the dead deer was performed. According to Dr Kamal, posted in Veterinary hospital, the chital was 2 years old and weighed 15 kilograms. After post-mortem its body was sent to Dehradun located investigation centre for further investigation.
Notably, during the intervening night of June 28-29, team of Mahasamund Kotwali thana incharge Pramila Mandawi had arrested two persons near the jungle of Arand while they were bringing the killed deer’s body on two motorcycles. Two of the accused however managed to escape from the spot including Patwari Manish Chandrakar.