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Leopard skin seized in India

Forest officials have seized a leopard skin and arrested three people in Tamil Nadu, India, reports The Hindu

3 held, leopard skin seized
The Hindu
2 October 2008


Udhagamandalam: A team of forest officials on Wednesday seized a leopard skin from a house at Choladi in Bitherkad range near Gudalur.
Following a tip off, the team, headed by Ranger Chandrashekaran, raided the house and nabbed three persons. Preliminary investigations revealed
that the animal died after it had come into contact with an electric fence erected along a field of one of the arrested persons.

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