The Chhattisgarh Forest Department on Thursday arrested nine poachers engaged in illegal hunting of wild boar cubs in the Mahasamund Forest Range.
Mahasamund Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) Pankaj Rajput said the arrested men were Chamar Singh Khadia, Ratu Singh Kamar, Gaya Ram Dhruv, Butia Vishwakarma, Pardeshi Nishad, Sadhuram Yadav, Lokesh Yadav, Kailash Kumar and Hriday Ram Sahu, all from Kolpadar village.
All of them were involved in hunting the cubs using live electric wire, a press release said.
The department seized a 557-meter-long electric wire, 31 hooks, an arrow and other materials used in the hunting.