Kendrapada: Foresters seized 20 kg of spotted deer meat from a poacher at Mahisamada reserve forest within Bhitarkanika National Park in Kendrapada district on Wednesday evening and arrested a suspected poacher. “We gathered information regarding illegal transportation of spotted deer’s meat packed in packets for which while checking at Pataparia village we searched a man’s bag and seized 20 kg meat of spotted deer, two sharp weapons, plastic ropes and 10 traps and arrested the suspected poacher, Ranjan Samal, of Pataparia village,” said the assistant conservator of forests (ACF), Bhitarkanika, Manas Kumar Das.
