India, Oct. 27 -- Three people have been arrested for allegedly killing a five-year-old male tiger, locally known as 'lockdown', as he was born during imposition of lockdown to contain Covid 19, in the Kanha Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh, officials said on Monday.

A joint team of forest and police arrested Mistar Singh and Govind Singh, residents of Bhimpuri village, with tiger skin on the night of October Saturday night. The team arrested another accused, Aghhan, a resident of Ataria, on Sunday.

The accused were trying to sell the skin for occult practise in the area.

"The accused informed the police that they laid a live electric wire to kill a wild boar but the male tiger aged five years, which was popularly known as 'lockdown', w...