Chief Inspector among four nabbed for poaching

Indika Polkotuwa and Asela Kuruluwansa

Four suspects including a Police Chief Inspector attached to the Wanathawilluwa police who had engaged in poaching in the Knuckles group forest reserve were caught red handed with their day's kill by Wattegama police officers.

They were nabbed when police checked the van in which they were returning after the poaching expedition at Heepitiya, Wattegama following public information yesterday morning.

Police also seized two firearms, 12 live cartridges, seven spent cartridge cells, several rambo knives, and torches and five deer carcasses and a carcass of a wild boar from their possession, said Wattegama police OIC Inspector Chintaka Bandara.