BHUBANESWAR: Three forest officials have been arrested for allegedly killing the lone witness to an elephant’s poaching in Odisha’s Similipal Tiger Reserve last December and the burning of its carcass to destroy evidence. Shiba Sankar Samal, Chandrabhanu Behera and Binod Kumar Das were held late Wednesday night for the murder of Turam Purty. They had been suspended earlier.
Samal is a ranger-in-charge, Behera a beat forester and Das a guard. “The trio allegedly forced Purty to consume poison,” an official said. The trio had suspected Purty, a contractual worker of the forest department, of leaking out information to higher authorities about the incident in the reserve located in Mayurbhanj district.
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