The arrest was made during a naka of police established at Kallar Chowk on Jammu Rajouri Poonch national highway, said police.

The forest department has launched an investigation into the reported deaths of 18 to 19 monkeys in a village in Chhattisgarh's Bemetara district and recovered four rotten carcasses, a senior official said. A panchayat representative, however, claimed that at least 17 monkeys were shot dead by two labourers