The police arrested the hunters from a secluded place last night. Later, they handed them over to the Similipal Wildlife Division for further investigations.
Notably, forest officials had on January 21 recovered a decomposed body of a pachyderm from a jungle inside the sanctuary. Since then, the wildlife department has been conducting investigation. Arrest of four poachers by police is likely to help the wildlife department establish reasons behind killing of the elephant.
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