Pilibhit: Five poachers were arrested from the forest area near Sultanpur village on Wednesday morning by a police team of Seramau North police station, Pilibhit. Two trapping nets, one spear, a poleaxe and three daggers were seized from them. An FIR has been lodged in the matter and the accused have been jailed.All the accused are residents of Haripur Kishanpur village under Seramau North police station. The spot where they were caught is a part of Kishanpur wildlife sanctuary in Kheri district. According to station house officer (SHO) RK Bharadwaj, police chased the poachers in the late hours of Tuesday following a lead. “They were caught inside the forest area of Kishanpur at 2.30 am. They had already set traps in the jungle to catch wild boars and deer when the police caught them,” said Bhardwaj.The accused, identified as Lalta Prasad, Hardev, Dev Saran, Vachan Singh and Rajesh Pal, confessed to being involved in poaching of wild herbivores for meat, which they traded, said the SHO. They were booked under sections 9, 51, 27 and 31 of wildlife protection act, 1972.

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