The criminals involved in the smuggling of leopard skin, nails and bones were arrested by Indore police.
DIG Indore Manish Kapuria has instructed SP headquarter Arvind Tiwari, SP west Mahesh Chandra Jain and SP Indore crime branch Guru Prashad Parashar to form different teams to check the smuggling of wild animals.
ASP Mhow Puneet Gehlot received the information that the hunters involved in hunting the leopard are carrying the skin nails and bones with them and are trying to sell it. Five hunters, Champalal Kannoje of Dewas, Sharukh Khan of Indore, Ahmedraja of Indore, Yasin Ali of Badwani and Salim resident of Indore, were arrested with the leopard’s skin, nails and bones.
The accused hunter Champalal Kannoje told police that he had hunted down the leopard from his own gun in the village patharipala forest area and has given the skin nails and bones to his other four partners to sell in open market.
Police recovered the skin nails and bones of leopard and one gun one two-wheeler and registered a case against the accused under wild life protection act 1972 at Khudail police Station. DSP headquarter Ajay Vajpayee and DSP crime Anil Singh Chouhan were the part of the trap team.