Overview
- A farmer’s family discovered decomposed carcasses in a farm well and officials recovered 13 blackbucks—four males and nine females—and one stray dog from the site.
- Forest and police teams conducted mandatory formalities, completed postmortems, collected samples and cremated all 14 carcasses near the scene as required by law.
- Officials found a broken section of the well’s protective parapet and say their preliminary account points to the herd panicking while fleeing a stray dog and falling into the open well.
- Because blackbucks are protected under Schedule I of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, the case required senior-officer involvement and has prompted a formal probe to establish the exact sequence and any negligence.
- The locality has a high deer population and recent large-scale relocations have been carried out by the forest department, and authorities say the inquiry and sample analysis will show whether infrastructure gaps or stray dogs pose a wider threat to local wildlife.