A man has been arrested for allegedly poisoning two tigresses to death in Nilgiris recently, Forest Department officials said on Monday.
The arrested person was identified as Sekar.
After the carcasses of the animals were discovered, the forest officials launched a probe and sent tissue samples for forensic analysis.
With the carcass of a cow also found nearby, a thorough probe was launched in the locality, they said. Later it emerged that Sekar's cow was missing for sometime and he had found its remains.
He laced the cow's carcass with insecticide and the animals that consumed it died, officials said.
Sekar was later remanded to custody.
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