Sangli forest department officials said they have arrested a man for allegedly hunting wild animals in the forest. The accused allegedly trained his pet dog, which belongs to the Mudhol hound species, to hunt small and medium-sized wild animals such as hares, jackals, monitor lizards, etc, in the forest.

Officials have identified the accused as Umaji Jagannath Malme, a resident of Dudhi Bavi village in Kavathe Mahankal taluka in the Sangli district. According to officials, Malme used to take photos and videos of his pet dog, (Babya, hunting wild animals near the forested patch and grassland and later used to upload those through an Instagram account ‘babya_king_302’.