Coimbatore: Forest department officials arrested a member of the narikuravar community on Saturday for poaching two spotted deer at Nellithurai beat of the Mettupalayam forest range on January 23.
The arrested person was identified as J Arul of narikuravar colony at Thimmampalayam, Karamadai. Arul and a relative used country-made guns to kill the deer, range officer Palaniraja said. He was booked under the Wild Life Protection Act, 1972 and remanded in judicial custody.. TNN