Crimes related to wild creatures are not much in talks but it doesn’t indicate that they are not happening. Recently, a case has come to light where around eight leopard skins and a tiger skin were seized and seven wildlife smugglers were arrested in Kalahandi.
The arrest was made with a joint team from Wildlife Crime Control Bureau and forest officials of Odisha and Chhattisgarh on Saturday. Chief wildlife warden Shashi Paul said the seizures included a tiger and a leopard skin from M Rampur area and two leopard hides from the Junagarh area of the district. Paul said the seized tiger skin was being examined and if required, it will be sent to the Centre for Wildlife Health at OUAT or forensic lab of Wildlife Institute of India at Dehradun for confirmation. The six accused nabbed in this connection were not the main party but were middlemen apprehended by the joint team that posed as customers of the animal skins to lure them out.
Earlier in April, the Special Task Force of the CID seized one leopard skin and two elephant ivory from two persons in Nayagarh district. The STF arrested a wildlife smuggler and seized a leopard skin in Boudh district while in March they seized a leopard skin and arrested two smugglers in Barkot area.
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