Shimogga: The Judicial Magistrate First Class Court at Sorab awarded six months imprisonment to two persons for killing buffaloes by poisoning them.

The Sorab rural police had arrested Pathan Kasim Saab and Hussein Pir Saab, residents of Hirekerur on the charge of killing three buffaloes at Kadasur, a village in Sorab taluk by poisoning them.

As the court found them guilty, it sentenced them to six months in jail, besides imposing a fine of Rs. 9,000 each.