HYDERABAD: (May 5) Six people, including a professional shooter associated with the Telangana Rifle Association, were apprehended for alleged illegal hunting of wild animals using airguns in Shadnagar and Makthal forest areas of the state, police said on Tuesday.
The police, along with the Forest department officials, conducted a joint operation and nabbed the six accused on Monday while they were hunting deer, peacock, rabbits, quail and doves using airguns and filmed their hunts, Additional DCP (Commissioner’s Task Force) A Srinivasa Rao said in a release.
Four airguns, one licensed rifle with 20 live rounds, a car and eight mobile phones and airgun pellets were recovered from the possession of the accused.