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UDHAGAMANDALAM: A male sub-adult leopard, which got trapped in a snare placed in a barbed wire fence at Yellanhalli near Ooty, died soon after it was rescued on Thursday.
Locals, who found the leopard caught in the fence on a farmland at Jothi Nagar, had informed the forest department. The animal, about three years old, might have got caught in a snare planted in the fence, assistant conservator of forests Saravanakumar said. “It would have struggled to release itself from the snare the whole night and thus it had hurt its hind legs badly. It took nearly eight hours for our team to release it from the snare. However, the animal died within half-an-hour after it was released,” he said.
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COIMBATORE: A 50-year-old man was arrested at Gomangalam on Sunday for illegally storing fertilizer that is provided by the government to the farmers at subsidised price.
The Gomangalam police identified the accused as B Mummoorthy, of Alagappa Street at Jothi Nagar in Pollachi. He was nabbed during a vehicle check on Pollachi-Udumalpet road.
A police officer said the Pollachi agriculture officer, Thulasimani, had seized 905 fertilizer bags meant for distribution under the state government subsidy scheme from a godown at Kedimedu village near Gomangalam on January 18, along with a truck that was used to smuggle the same.
“The officer lodged a police complaint and preliminary investigation revealed the godown owner Ramasamy, along with Mummoorthy and Santhosh, was involved in smuggling fertilizers. They had gone into hiding,” the officer said.
Coimbatore: The rural police on Sunday arrested one of the three absconding accused involved in the illegally stocking of 905 fertilizer bags provided by the state government under the subsidy scheme to farmers at Gomangalam.
On January 18, agriculture officer from Pollachi Thulasimani inspected a fertilizer godown belonging to Ramasamy at Kedimedu village near Gomangalam.
During the inspection, 905 fertilizer bags were found illegally stocked at the godown. The officer seized the fertilizer bags and a truck used for smuggling the fertilizers. Thulasimani also lodged a complaint with the Gomangalam police who registered a case under Section 7(1) (a) (ii) of the Essential Commodity Act.