A six-member inter-State poachers’ gang was busted by an alert Forest squad on Saturday midnight in Kanakagiri reserve forests in Thallada range of Khammam district.
The swift action by the forest squad helped foil a poaching bid and led to the arrest of all the six members of the gang and seizure of a sniper rifle (country-made gun), a knife, an axe and a car from their possession.
The arrested were identified as P Sugreev, 58, of Hyderabad, D Mithun Kumar, 31, a snake catcher and B Suresh, 36, of Bhadradri Kothagudem district, B Venkata Srikanth, 38, Hyderabad, B Narayana Rao, 20, and T Vijaya Nagaraju, 20, of Andhra Pradesh, said sources in the Forest department.
