The carcass, around 4-5 days old, was found in a decomposed condition in south Udanti range close to the Odisha border on Monday evening, Deputy Director of Udanti Sitanadi Tiger Reserve Varun Jain said. Chhattisgarh: Leopard Found Dead in Udanti Sitanadi Tiger Reserve; Paws, Teeth Missing.
Preliminary investigations revealed that the duo were traveling from Thembisa in Johannesburg looking for a traditional healer to sell the lion s head to for R350,000.
He is known to have been actively poaching tigers in the area of the Sundarbans mangrove forest - which straddles both India and Bangladesh - for more than two decades and had always managed to flee whenever police closed in on his home next to the forest.
As reported in the Dhaka Tribune, local police chief, Saidur Rahman, said that they managed to arrest Talukder “Acting on a tipoff , adding, we finally succeeded and sent him to jail.”
Sharankhola police, acting on a tip-off, arrested Habib Talukder, 50, in the early hours of Saturday from Madhya Sonatola village, adjacent to the forest, under Southkhali union.https://t.co/wVc59Du48u