Coimbatore: The forest department official arrested two people to win three monitor lizards at Tholampalayam East Beat of PeriyanaCkenpalayam Range here on Wednesday night.
The source with the Ministry of Forestry identified Defendant K Rajendran 41 years and K K 42 years, both residents of Samakkal Nagar in Bilichi Gundanur Village.
The source said both were seen by K Muthu, a forester with the range of forests of Periyanenickalayam, and the team when they traveled on Tuesday night.
“When he saw them, both left the carcass three monitors and snares and escaped.” Meanwhile, the special team secured the duo on Wednesday night and they were interrogated by the Periyanacenickalayam Forest Range Officer S Selvaraj.
“Both recognize the crime.
Officials also seize the sickles of them.
They are produced in front of the Judge Judicial Court in Mettupalayam on Thursday and nesting in the Avinashi sub-prison under the judicial resistance,” said the source.
Meanwhile, the lizard monitor was buried in a reserve forest after an autopsy, carried out by a veterinarian with the Kovanur Animal Hospital.