A female bear and its cub entered a villager's house after wandering off the forest in Kulhariya village of Kedai range of Katghora forest division in Chhattisgarh's Korba district on Sunday, a forest official said on Monday.
The accused were identified as Rajendra Rajput, Devanand Kalipad, Dhanveer - all residents of Sukma, Sahdu Ram - a resident of Koyalibeda, and his wife Dasri - a resident of Kurusbodi.
According to ITBP, the trekker is a resident of Delhi and was reported to have suffered a leg fracture while trekking at Gorson Bugyal (11,500 ft) with a group.
The NF Railway CPRO also said that, in an incident on December 8, RPF staff of Rangapani while checking Train no. 15709 UP (Malda Town - New Jalpaiguri Express) at Chatterhat station rescued one runaway minor boy and girl.
The victim's parents have alleged that around a hundred youths had barged into their house and forcibly taken away their 24-year-old daughter, Vaishali.
An eight-year-old, who fell into a 55-feet-deep borewell in Mandavi village in Betul district of Madhya Pradesh on December 6, died after he was pulled out following a rescue operation, said the Betul District Administration on Saturday.
Tanmay's mother, Jyoti Sahu said: "Give me my child, whatever it may be. So much time has passed. Three days have passed, as officials kept saying 'two to four more hours '. I don't want anything, take out my son. I want to see my child once, whatever it may be, just take him out."
Betul Additional District Magistrate (ADM) Shyamendra Jaiswal late Wednesday said, "Excavation is going on and about 33 feet of excavation have been done. Our target is 45 feet. The child, however, is not responding as he might have fallen unconscious.."
The accused were arrested in multiple raids carried out by the Anti-Human Trafficking Unit of Cyberabad Police in Hyderabad, Bengaluru and other places in the last two months. The rescued victims are from Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka, Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Assam, Bangladesh, Nepal,
Betul Additional District Magistrate (ADM) Shyamendra Jaiswal said, "It is taking more time than what we expected because there are stones. We have reached a depth of over 40 feet so far and vertical digging remains. Medical team is present on the spot."