Leopard skin seized, two arrested

Bhubaneswar: Two people were arrested and two leopard skins seized from their possession in Odisha’s Rayagada district, police said on Wednesday.

Acting on a tip-off, sleuths of the Special Task Force of the police crime branch conducted a raid at Tamparbiduni Chak under Chandili police station area on Tuesday and made arrests and seizures, a police officer said.

He said a case has been registered and the skin will be sent to the Dehradun-based Wildlife Institute for further investigation. Further investigation is ongoing.