A YouTuber has been arrested and detained in India after cooking and eating a peacock.
It follows a video posted on Kodam Pranay Kumar’s channel of him consuming a curry, apparently made from the bird, which is a protected national species.
Police said Pranay Kumar was detained on Monday and jailed after “other videos in his mobile phone confirmed” that the bird he had cooked was suspected to be a peacock.
As part of the investigation, district forest ranger Kalpana Devi seized samples of the dish, which have been sent to the forensic laboratory for examination to determine the exact nature of the meat.
Pranay Kumar, from Thangallapalli near Hyderabad, has denied the allegations, claiming…
