India, Feb. 2 -- In an interstate chief conservator of forest (CCF) officer-level meeting, the forest officials from the Nandurbar forest department raised an issue of unauthorised Leopard transportation from Gujarat to Maharashtra. This meeting was held on Saturday at Saputara village located on the border of Gujarat and Maharashtra. Senior officials from both Gujarat and Maharashtra state forest departments were present for the meeting.

On January 19, officials from the Gujarat forest department were found carrying a caged leopard in a boat in the Narmada River near the border area of Nandurbar district in Maharashtra. The residents alleged that the officials were trying to release the leopard illegally to the forest areas of Nandurbar...