A country-made gun has been recovered from a jeep near Gudalur.
Enquiries made by The Hindu revealed that when some forest officials were patrolling a section of the Pandiyar range recently, they intercepted a jeep, which was moving in suspicious manner.
The vehicle was stopped but the driver escaped. While searching the vehicle they came across a secret compartment in which there was the country-made gun, five cartridges, a few knives and two logs. It is suspected that the vehicle belonged to a gang of poachers.
Forest sources said that patrolling has been intensified and the local people alerted.
Krishnagiri Staff Reporter adds:
Three persons were arrested for possessing an unlicensed country gun at Mathur here. The police said M. Chinnasamy, 41, of M.G. Halli in Pochampalli; K. Krishnan, 35, of Poosarikottaai; and A. Velan, 34, of Pochampalli escaped when they were intercepted by the police, abandoning the country gun and a mobile phone. After the police tracked them down through the calls made on the phone, the three confessed to having bought the gun for Rs. 2,000 from a narikurava. .
