Boudh: Forest officials seized a leopard skin from Kantamal forest area in Boudh district of Odisha. Two persons have been arrested in this connection.

Acting on a tip-off about leopard skin trafficking, a team of forest officials led by Balangir DFO Nitish Kumar raided Kotagaon under Tushura police limits in Balangir district and arrested a person identified as Mukesh Manhira of that village.

During interrogation, the forest team learned about the leopard skin and found it from a heap of crushed paddy straw at Phatamunda village under Kantamal police limits in Boudh district. The forest officials arrested one more person identified as Dibyashankar Bagarty on this charge.

Following the arrest, two accused persons were forwarded to a local court, informed the Balangir DFO Nitish Kumar.