Two caught in Chhattisgarh with leopard skin
September 17th, 2009 - 11:35 am ICT by IANSRaipur, Sep 17 (IANS) A crime branch squad arrested two people in Chhattisgarh’s Kanker district Wednesday night while they were waiting to sell a leopard’s skin to a customer.
Acting on a tip off, a team led by crime branch officer D.S. Gahlod arrested two people — Poshanlal, 45, and Sukdhar, 30 — in Aturgaon, a village near Raipur-Jagdalpur national highway, some 220 km south from here.
“It’s a five-feet long leopard skin seized from the arrested persons; it seems the leopard was gunned down as some bullet marks were found on the recovered skin,” Gahlod told IANS.
Police have been interrogating the arrestedmen in a bid to unravel an inter-state animal poachers’ gang, which they believe has been in operation for several years.
Police have recovered several animal skins, mainly of leopards, in Kanker and Dhamtari districts in recent months.
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