Two held with tiger skins in Chhattisgarh

By IANS
Thursday, June 10, 2010

RAIPUR - Two people were arrested in Chhattisgarh’s Bilaspur town with tiger skins, police said Thursday.

The arrests Wednesday were made from the Sarkanda police station area, some 110 km from here.

Acting on a tip-off, Jhariram Sahu, 42 and his associate were arrested from two different localities of Bilaspur town.

Preliminary inquiries suggest that the two had poached a tiger in the Mandla forest circle in Madhya Pradesh close to the Chhattisgarh border.

Filed under: Accidents and Disasters

Tags: Raipur, Wildlife

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