Leopard Seizure by
Maharashtra Tiger Cell
21st October, 2003
On 11 October 2003
a team of the Tiger Cell from Gondia, Maharashtra, with
the assistance of WPSI, arrested five poachers and seized
two leopard skins. The Tiger Cell team, led by Assistant
Police Inspector G. R. Kankale, conducted the raids
in the Chichgarh area that adjoins Navergaon National
Park.
 The
area has a strong naxalite presence, which made the
seizure extremely challenging. Naxalites in the area
have been known to shelter and facilitate poachers,
and the enforcement authorities have been unable to
pursue cases in the past due to the threat faced from
these extremist groups.
The accused were produced before the Judicial Magistrate
in Sakoli, on 12 October, who remanded them to police
custody.
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