As the world is celebrating the 'World Wildlife Day', the Navi Mumbai Police on Friday said that it has seized the skin of a leopard from their jurisdiction and nabbed a man for allegedly trying to sell the skin and nails of the wild animal after hunting it. The police said that they have also seized a gun from which the wild animal was shot dead. 

According to the police, the Navi Mumbai Crime Branch had initially received a tip-off regarding a suspect reaching Kharpada Toll Naka on the Mumbai-Goa Highway with the skin of the big cat on February 28. On receiving the information, a team led by Inspector Ravindra Patil began to verify the facts of the information and after working on the concrete evidence on the information deputed a team at the spot.