JAISALMER: The incidents of chinkara poaching are increasing in winter. Villagers in Barmer caught a person poaching a chinkara and handed him over to the forest department on Thursday night.
A poacher at Bhadkha in Barmer district was found poaching a chinkara with weapons, torch and other items on Thursday night and a few people saw him and chased him. They recovered a chinkara carcass and few weapons from him. The villagers immediately informed the forest department and handed over the poacher along with the dead chinkara and the weapons to the forest team. Forest department officer Deepak Kumar said that he received information that a poacher had been caught at Bhadkha village around midnight.
The team reached there and took the poacher in custody. Postmortem of the carcass will be done by forming a medical board .