Hyena was neither snared nor shot at said chief conservator of forest cum field director MP Singh of tiger reserve Palamu.
CCF cum FD PTR said, “The male hyena was hit with any blunt object say lathi or danda and that proved fatal as hyena’s skull was too badly injured.”
The post mortem done on its carcass showed elements of goat eating by this hyena and probably the goat owner or his co villagers did this crime by hitting te hyena on its skull leading to its death later on.
A case against unidentified people has been registered under various sections of wild life protection act said sources.