The Special Task Force (STF) of the State Crime Branch on Tuesday arrested a jail Warder and a Havildar in connection with the leopard skin racket it had busted in Barakote of Deogarh district recently.
The arrestees were identified as Rashmi Ranjan Mishra (27) of Katapali village in Bargarh town and Likul Kumar Sahu (32) of Bada Gogua under the Bonai police station in Sundargarh district.
While Mishra is posted as a Jail Warder in the Rourkela Special Jail, Sahu is posted as a Havildar in the 4th Indian Reserve Battalion (IRB) in Deogarh.
The arrested cops were part of the gang which was involved in a leopard skin smuggling in Barkote area of Deogarh district. Earlier, seven persons arrested in connection with the racket.
Both the accused were forwarded to the court of the Deogarh SDJM on the day.