Mysuru: The Forest Department has arrested one among the six persons accused of allegedly poisoning a tiger and leopard at Parvathi Betta in Bandipur Tiger Reserve on May 28. The Forest Department personnel had found the carcasses of the two wild cats which had died in a suspicious manner and had registered a case.
The Forest Department personnel, on May 28, had found the carcasses of the tiger and the leopard in a decomposed state and had also found a carcass of a calf nearby. Suspecting that miscreants may have poisoned the carcass of the calf which later was devoured by the two wild cats resulting in their death, the Forest Department, which had registered a case, took up the investigation.
