The Forest Department officials arrested nine people for poaching Porcupines at Kalasapura Reserve Forest.
The arrested are Govinda, Murugesh, Chandrashekar, Seenappa, Srirama, Balappa, Jayappa and Rajappa from Andra Pradesh.
RFO Shilpa said they were arrested for poaching 2 porcupines. All the arrested were produced in the court, which remanded them to judicial custody.
(Published 11 July 2018, 17:23 IST)