trichy in an incident reminiscent of the recent death of an elephant in kerala which ate a crackerfilled coconut a jackal in trichy district died after a country bomb covered in animal fat exploded in its mouththe trichy police on monday arrested 12 men for killing the jackal country bomb as a bait the bomb exploded in the mouth of the jackal killing it on the spot the jackal is a schedule i animal protected under the wildlife protection act 1972 the arrested are identified as k ramaraj 21 i saravanan 25 r yesudas 34 r sarath kumar 28 s devadass 41 r pandian 31 s vijay kumar 38 a sathyamurthy 36 v sarath kumar 26 p raju 45 m pattampillai 78 and p rajamanickam 70jeeyapuram deputy superintendent of police c kokila told toi that a police constable saw the 12 men at a tea shop near mekkudi village with the carcass of the jackal in the afternoon he nabbed all the accused and brought them to the police station kokila said the accused had set the bomb in the jeeyapuram forest as a bait for the jackal as soon as the jackal bit the bait assuming it to be a prey the bomb exploded killing it on the spotall the arrested have been handed over to the trichy forest department