One arrested with leopard hides in Odisha’s Nayagarh

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Nayagarh: A person was arrested with two leopard hides in Odisha’s Nayagarh district, police said Monday.

Acting on a tip-off, the Special Task Force (STF) of the state police conducted a raid near Deer Park of the Kuanria Dam in Daspalla area Sunday and made the seizures, they said.

A case has been registered and an investigation is underway, they added.

The hides will be sent to the Wildlife Institute of India in Dehradun for examination, police said.

PTI

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