Madkeri: Six people were arrested for illegally hunting down a red deer at Kodagu-Kerala border’s reserved forest area on Saturday early morning here.

The accused have been identified as K B Siddique, M H Sameer, A U Sameer all three residents of Ponnam Pete Mapille Todu, and K E Ismail, K A Yusuf and K A Mohammed of Napoklu of Kunjila village.

Working on a credible information the police officials at Kutta-Irpu junction arrested the accused and seized their vehicle and 150 kg meat of red deer. The officials also recovered weapons including guns and swords used to hunt down the animal.

Superintendent of Police Dr. Suman D Pannekar led the operation along with DCIB Inspector K Nagesh, officials K Anil Kumar, B L Yogish Kumar, K R Vasantha, M M Niranjan and driver K S Shashikumar were part of the team.

Dr. Suman D Pannekar also announced a cash prize of ten thousand rupees to the team that carried out the operation.

A case has been registered at Kutta Police Station against the six accused.

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Washington: US President Donald Trump has said he has not yet considered whether he would continue the ceasefire involving Iran, while also claiming the United States holds the advantage in negotiations.

Speaking to reporters, Trump said he was prepared to make a deal with “whoever is running the show” in Iran.

“They are fighting with each other, there’s tremendous infighting. They’re probably fighting for leadership in many cases. I think they’re fighting not to be leader because we knocked out two levels of leaders,” he said.

Trump added, “When they want they can call me. We have all the cards, we’ve won everything.”

Referring to ongoing negotiations, he said, “They gave us a paper that should’ve been better. And, interestingly, immediately when I cancelled it [envoy trip to Pakistan], within 10 minutes we got a new paper that was much better.”

“We talked about they will not have a nuclear weapon, very simple … They offered a lot, but not enough,” he added.

When asked whether he would continue the ceasefire, Trump replied, “I haven’t even thought about it.”

The remarks come as uncertainty remains over the future of the temporary truce and broader negotiations between Washington and Tehran.