Bhubaneswar, Feb. 18 -- Amid growing threat of illegal home-made explosives to poach animals in the state's wildlife corridors, Odisha police joined hands with the Forest personnel to intensify joint patrolling and ground-level intelligence sharing to arrest dangerous ploys by law-breakers.
The explosive trap using a mixture of 'gandhak-potash' (potassium nitrate and sulphur), crushed stones and other materials, before covering it with wheat dough has become a cause of worry for forest personnel with reports of wild animals and domestic animals foraging in the forest falling prey to the dangerous practice.
A high-level virtual coordination meeting chaired by the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Central Range, Cuttack, Satyajit Naik was ...