Youngsters who feasted on deer, wild cat in Nagaland surrender

GUWAHATI: Youngsters who feasted on deer, wild cat in Nagaland have surrendered, informed Nagaland Forest Department.

The suspects who were tracked down after the incident was reported surrendered before the Wildlife Wing of the Department of Environment, Forests and Climate Change of Nagaland.

In a viral video, some youngsters in Nagaland were seen feasting on wild animals such as deer and wild cat to celebrate ‘lockdown festival.”

The youngsters said “We are going to stay around this place for the next seven days, and it is going to be party-time for us.”

Investigation is going on after the video emerged through social media.

Most likely the incident took place at Intaki National Park in Nagaland.

Meanwhile, As Nagaland’s first COVID-19 patient undergoes treatment, Nagaland’s Zion Hospital has been sealed where the patient was earlier admitted as an indoor patient.

Nurses, doctors and health workers have now been quarantined.

The state government has also sealed various areas including the patient’s residential area.

The patient had arrived in the State on an Air India flight from Kolkata on March 24.

Nagaland has also released 109 undertrials in keeping with Supreme Court’s directions to all States and Union Territories to constitute their respective high-level panels to determine prisoners who could be released on parole for four to six weeks to prevent overcrowding in jails to help prevent the spread of coronavirus.

In Nagaland prisoners were also released from 11 jails.

The state houses 537 prisoners. A committee was formed to carry out the SC’s mandate.

The under trials released would be taken into custody if they try to threaten anybody who can be a witness or of any importance to the victim’s case, informed the committee.

A few days ago, the Supreme Court had said that the Indian prisons are overcrowded, which strikes against the Centre’s advice to maintain “social distancing.”

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