AR-News: (India) Gang selling fake tiger skins busted

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newkerala.com
Jagdalpur (Chhattisgarh), June 27  (ANI): 

Police in Chhattisgarh on Sunday busted a gang selling fake tiger  skins to 
dupe people. 

Officials said the racketeers, most of them  tribals from Jagdalpur village, 
would skin dead stray dogs and at times even  kill them. The hides were then 
washed with hydrogen peroxide before being  carefully textured with permanent 
vegetable dyes to duplicate tiger skin. Police  suspect larger city-based gangs 
to be involved in the racket. "The skin is  actually that of the dog, which 
has been dyed and made to look like that of  tiger. The claws are made out of 
bull horns. We still do not know, who are the  people buying all this stuff," 
Rajendra Parihar, police in- charge, Jagdalpur,  said. 

The gang also chiseled hooves and bones of buffaloes to make  "tiger" nails, 
claws and other body parts. 

Three "tiger" skins including  one half-painted skin, around 50 nails and two 
claws were recovered from  them. 




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