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Three hunters, who were allegedly hunting chaotic boar successful the reserve wood adjacent Kadayanallur successful the district, were detained and fined connected Monday.
Following accusation astir hunting of chaotic boars adjacent Kadayanallur, a squad led by Forest Range Officer, Kadayanallur, Kanagaraj, raided the wood adjacent Chinnakaadu connected Monday. When the wood unit spotted a squad of hunters who were hunting chaotic boar, tried to escape.
However, they were nabbed and identified arsenic R. Subburaj, 29, P. Pavunraj, 21 and A. Santhosh, 23, each hailing from Kandukondanmanickam colony adjacent Chinnakadu forest.
After being brought to the Kadayanallur Forest Office for interrogation, District Forest Officer (DFO) R. Rajmohan slapped the good of ₹80,000 each connected them for hunting chaotic boar.
The DFO appealed to the nationalist to alert the District Forest Office Control Room (04633 – 233550 oregon 04633 – 233660) astir the hunters and promised that the individuality of the informers would ne'er beryllium revealed.
In a statement, Dr. Rajmohan besides said the Tenkasi Forest Division has formed a squad to power oregon hunt down the crop-raiding chaotic boars which harm the crops raised successful the ranches situated 3 km distant from the reserve forests. If the farmers announcement the chaotic boars destroying the crops successful their ranches located 3 Km distant from the wood areas, they should lone pass the wood section astir the chaotic carnal destroying their crops.
The wood personnel, aft visiting the spot, would determine if the chaotic animals had to beryllium caught utilizing specially designed cages oregon hunted by the wood unit trained successful handling firearms. If the chaotic boars had to beryllium hunted down, the squad with trained forester and wood guards, would sojourn the affected ranches and hunt down the chaotic boars aft getting the support of the DFO wrong nary time.
The farmers whitethorn interaction the pursuing numbers for either catching oregon hunting the crop-raiding chaotic boars: Forester Aswin, Kadayanallur – 78068 46467, Forester Prakash, Sivagiri – 96290 89469, Forester Manikandan, Puliyangudi – 94897 80210, Forester Murugesan, Courtallam – 97882 32000, Forester Shankar Raja, Tenkasi – 98426 85856 and Forester Ambalavanan, Alangulam – 99650 32841.
