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In a major crackdown on wildlife crime, officials of the Mumbai Zonal Unit of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) on Monday seized two leopard skins from the Kolnara area of Rayagada district and arrested four individuals involved in the illegal trade.

According to officials, a special DRI team conducted raids at multiple locations in Rayagada after receiving specific intelligence inputs. During the operation, they apprehended four suspects and recovered the leopard skins from their possession.

The accused have been identified as Prabhakar Nayak and Raj Kumar Gupta from Nagpur in Maharashtra, Mahesh Huika from the Mac...