Palamu tiger reserve officials are yet to locate or identify a four wheeler that ran over a female deer under Chhipadohar range.
A small female deer was run over by a four wheeler on the night of February 7 near Barwahee check dam and one kilometer away from the Labher check post where perch a camp of security forces on the Labher hillock 400 meters above the sea level.
Sources said the female deer died on the spot and the occupants of the four wheeler were in a mood to run away with its body too which was foiled by alert team of Chhipadohar range officials. Sources said the range officials rushed to the spot and recovered the carcass of the female deer.The four wheeler had by then sped away from the scene of deer death. Ashok Kumar Chhipadohar ranger who was in limelight for the recovery of a tusk said “ The moment we got this information of our one small female deer being killed by a speeding four wheeler we rushed out on the night of February 7 and seized the carcass. We frustrated the bid of the occupants of the four wheeler to run away with its body either for flesh or for its hide.”
Ashok Kumar said our men got it undergo postmortem and then a panchnama was readied and finally the deer was buried.
The ranger agreed that speeding vehicles are a major problem here where right from snakes , monkeys, langurs, squirrels, down to deer speed kills them while negotiating the roads and in majority of cases the wrong doers just get away.
The ranger said here in this case of deer casualty our information is that the vehicle was from Garu side to Daltonganj.
“ It is too difficult to trace out as to whose vehicle did this loss of wild life” Kumar reiterated.
Sources said PTR officials have been asking for speed limit on the roads that crisscross PTR but its implementation gives a major slip to the officials.
Sources said a road checking for this purpose from Betla, Garu, Maromar, Bareysarn and Chhipadohar can instill fear among the men at the driving seats to limit their speed for the sake of wild life of PTR.