A forest officers' association here on Tuesday demanded the arrest of the Melghat Tiger Reserve's field director in connection with the suicide of a woman forest official in Maharashtra''s Amravati district. Range forest officer Deepali Chavan (34) allegedly shot herself with a service revolver at her home in Harisal village of Amravati last Thursday.

Later, Vinod Shivkumar, the deputy conservator of forest, Googamal Wildlife Division of Melghat Tiger Reserve (MTR), was arrested on Friday for allegedly abetting her suicide. Members of the Gazetted Forest Officers Association, Nagpur, on Tuesday gave a memorandum to head of the state forest force, demanding that MTR field director M S Reddy be arrested and made a co-accused in the case.