nThe Chhattisgarh Forest Department arrested five persons for possessing two leopard skins at the Udnati Sitanadi Tiger Reserve in the Gariaband Forest Range, it was announced on Thursday. All five are now in jail.
Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (Wildlife) P.V. Narsingha Rao said the arrested men were Kailash, Paramanand, Yogesh, Ramprasad and Mohan Yadav, all residents of Gariaband district.
An anti-poaching team of the Forest Department nabbed the five from the Bargaon-Jangda region.
The team seized the two leopard skins and two bikes used in the crime. A case under the Wildlife Protection Act was lodged against them. All of them were produced in a local court which sent them to jail.