Moodbidri, Mar 29: Within a week of the incident, the police have arrested the absconding accused in connection with death of two friends who had gone hunting and were found dead beside Aranta Bakyaru fields on March 22.
Shekar (23), a resident of Aranta Bakyaru, was arrested on Thursday March 29. Another accused is absconding.
Greshion Rodrigues, a resident of Prantya village paper mill, and Praveen Tauro, a resident of Kakkebettu had gone hunting in the forest of Karinje hill on the night of March 20 and had gone missing. Their bodies were found near Aranta Bakyaru fields on March 22.
Praveen (L) and Greshion
It was suspected that the friends might have died after coming into contact with live electric wires erected by locals to hunt wild animals.
Soon after the incident, two locals went missing and the police started a search operation for them. Among them, Shekar has been arrested.
Sources said that Shekar has confessed to laying electric wires for hunting the animals that reportedly killed Greshion and Praveen.
Police have intensified the search for the other accused in the incident.
The arrested Shekar has been sent to judicial custody for fifteen days.