Two persons, who had fixed a snare to capture wild game and inadvertently trapped a leopard which subsequently died were arrested and remanded to judicial custody by the forest department.
The two accused were identified as C. Prashanthkumar, 26 and S. Maari, 50, from Theetukkal in Udhagamandalam. The two were picked up by a team of forest department staff following an investigation launched into the laying of a snare bordering an estate in the area.
