, June 30 -- A man who destroyed baya weaver nests and killed chicks has been arrested from Sadar upazila in Jhalakathi district, according to the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change.

Mobarak Ali Fakir, 70, was arrested from his residence at Guaton village under Shekherhat union in a police drive after the Forest Department filed a case over the incident.

The Forest Department filed a case against three people under the Wildlife (Conservation and Security) Act, 2012 with the Chief Judicial Magistrate's Court in Jhalakathi.

Besides, a member of Shekherhat union parishad lodged a separate case with the relevant police station.

The incident took place on June 27 when some miscreants felled a palm tree on a government land ...