SIRSA: In yet another incident of alleged poaching, a young chinkara was found shot dead in Raipur village of the district on Monday morning.
The chinkara's death comes within days of five blackbucks falling prey to stray dogs in a village in Adampur sub-division of Hisar district.
Villagers spotted the dead herbivore with blood oozing out of a hole in its body, suspected to be due to bullet injury, near the fields at about 11 am. It was alleged that the animal might have been shot dead by poachers elsewhere.
Though Dwarka Parsad, district wildlife inspector, claimed that the chinkara fell prey to stray dogs, villagers as well as members of Akhil Bharatiya Jeev Raksha Samiti asserted that it had a bullet injury, but the poachers apparently failed in taking it away.
Meanwhile, deputy commissioner J Ganesan has ordered a probe while a senior official has been asked to suprervise proceedings like postmortem of the dead chinkara, to ascertain the exact cause of death.
Jodha Ram Bishnoi, president of Akhil Bharitiya Jeev Raksha Samiti in Gosaiana village, said, "Let wildlife officials make their claims. Everything will be clear in postmortem. If they (wildlife officials) fail to nab the culprits, we will catch them. There is a possibility that the chinkara might have been killed somewhere else, but poachers chose to abandon it here, sensing problems on the route."
Akshey Beniwal, Rajmal Singh and Prahlad Singh of the village also endorsed Bishoni's views, saying that there is not even a single deer of this species being spotted in and around the forest reserves of Raipur village.
When contacted, Ganesan confirmed the incident. "I have seen the video footage, specially the close shots of the body. I have talked to senior wildlife officials. They will probe the matter and give a report as soon as possible," he said
