Forest Department officials have arrested four people in a joint operation with Wildlife Crime Control Bureau in connection with a wildlife poaching racket in southern India’s Karnataka. <br /><br />The operation took place along the border separating Male Mahadeshwara Wildlife Sanctuary and BRT Tiger Reserve in the Chamarajanagar district on August 20.<br /><br />Footage recorded on August 21 shows their seizure, included four tiger claws, tiger bones, a pair of leopard claws, deer skin, sambar skin, dhole skin, and the skin of two flying squirrels along with their bones.<br /><br />The operation took nearly one year of planning before the suspects - Mahadev and Kumar of Nellikatari and Rangaswamy and Mahadeva of Gombegallu - were caught red-handed.<br /><br />Forest Department officials will seek court permission for their custody and interrogation.
