BHABUA, Dec. 9 -- A forest department team seized a large number of deer heads, horns and animal flesh, and arrested a poacher in Kaimur district on Tuesday, officials said.

Officials further said that the wildlife items were seized during a raid in the Kaimur wildlife sanctuary, which falls under the jurisdiction of Adhaura police station of the district.

Acting on information that smugglers were hunting wild animals in remote areas of the sanctuary and selling their meat, Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) Sanjiv Ranjan formed a team that posed as customers for two days to trap the suspects.

Following a specific input about the hunting of a Nilgai (blue bull) and sale of its meat at Dumuruka village near the Uttar Pradesh border, a fore...