Salem: Four men were arrested by Mettur forest officials for attempting to hunt rabbits with two hunting dogs inside the Konur forest region, on Thursday.The arrested men have been identified as Selvakumar, 33, and Karthi, 25, siblings from Podhiyampatti forest settlement; Agathiyan, 22, from Marakkottai; and Ramasundaram, 22, from Mookanoor.Mettur forest range officer (FRO) M Sengottaiyan, forester Kannan, and guards Satheesh and Ramkumar noticed the four moving suspiciously with two dogs in the forest, during a routine patrol. “On questioning, they revealed that they had entered the forest to hunt rabbits,” the FRO said.Forest officials seized two motorcycles from them and registered a case. The four were produced before a court and subsequently lodged in the Salem Central Prison.
