A 24-year-old man was arrested with a leopard skin valued at Rs 5.5 lakhs in Chhattisgarh’s Dhamtari district, police said on Tuesday.
Acting on a tip, the police on Monday intercepted Vidyabhushan Gond, Dhamtari Additional Superintendent of Police Manisha Thakur Rawate said.
He was heading towards Mainpur in Gariaband district on his motorcycle from a village in neighbouring Odisha, she said.
The skin of a full grown leopard was found in a bag carried by Gond, a resident of Nabarangpur in Odisha.
A case has been filed under the Wildlife Protection Act 1972.
In November last year, a man was arrested and a leopard skin was seized from him in Nagri area of Dhamtari.