Tamil Nadu Forest Department-Kerala poachers clash: 2 injured

Police are searching for Kerala poachers who tried to shoot the Tamil Nadu Forest Department, in which 2 injured Forest Department personnel have been admitted to hospital and are receiving treatment.

Theni District, Kambam West Wildlife Sanctuary is located at the junction of Tamil Nadu and Kerala State Borders.

The forest department has received information about poachers from the state of Kerala hunting wild animals in the Tamil Nadu forest and taking them into Kerala.

In that regard, forest rangers Kajamaideen, Jayakumar, Manojkumar and Mahadevan led by Vanavar Ilavarasan were on patrol on Wednesday night at the Machakkal reserve and Suranganar reserve link area in the Tamil Nadu-Kerala state border forest area.

At that time, when the torch light was seen in the area, 7 unidentified persons were with guns and scythes in the forest of Cellar Kovil Mettu on the Tamil Nadu border to hunt.

The forest department looked at them and asked who you were and why you were in the forest without permission, and the hunters from the state of Kerala tried to shoot the gun in their hands.

Forest Ranger Kajamaidin (41) tried to stop it and grabbed the gun and smashed it into a tree. The enraged hunters attacked the Tamil Nadu Forest Department with a scythe in their hand. Foresters also stopped and attacked them, causing melee on both sides. In it, the scythe fell over the left forehead eyebrow to the guard Kajamaidin, and the scythe fell on the left leg of the Wilderness Prince.

The hunters then fired shots into the air and fled to Kerala.

The incident was immediately reported to the District Forest Officer and the incident was reported to the Cuddalore South Police Station.

The injured were rushed to Kambam Government Hospital for treatment, where they were stitched up at the site of the scythe cut and sent to Theni Government Medical College Hospital for further treatment. Injured leg

Vanavar Kambam has been admitted to the government hospital and is receiving treatment.

Occupancies in the state of Kerala on the border of Tamil Nadu and Kerala are high, with wildlife poachers infiltrating the forests of Tamil Nadu and poaching and attacking officials.

Already last month Idukki District Superintendent of Police P.S. It is noteworthy that Karuppasamy conducted raids at 63 places in the Tamil Nadu-Kerala border area and seized 4 firearms, ivory and deer antlers and arrested 4 persons from Kumuli and Devikulam.