LEOPARD SKIN, BONES SEIZED IN GUWAHATI

Custom officials in Guwahati apprehended a smuggler red-handed while he was looking to make sale on a leopard’s skin and bones. The officials seized a 7.7 feet long leopard skin along with five kilograms of bones. Acting on a tip-off, the officials intercepted the accused, who had reached Guwahati to reach out to their customers and brought one of the accused to book, while the other, a Bhutanese national managed to give the police a slip.

It may be mentioned that leopard skin are often smuggled to China and other South Asian countries where the skin is used as a decorative item and bones are used for medicinal purposes.