The Kallakurichi police arrested three persons and seized three unlicensed country-made guns from their possession here in the early hours of Monday.
According to police, a team was on a routine patrol duty in the villages abutting the reserve forests in Eraiyur, when they found Irudayaraj alias Bala, Kolandaisamy and Anandaraj moving under suspicious circumstances.
The team seized three single-barrel unlicensed country-made guns from them. Police said that the trio was involved in the poaching of animals in the reserve forests.