Finally, they noticed a hut and when they enquired, they located two persons inside it. They had been identified as Ganpat Paluk Lobhi, 26, a resident of Palekhurd in Panvel Taluka and Ganpat Raghu Wagh, 55, a resident of Wavanje village in Panvel Taluka.
When they searched the hut, they located a sack. “When it was opened, the skin of an animal lookalike a leopard was found,” stated Singh. He added that forest division officials had been informed and each Lobhi and Wagh had been taken into custody.
The Forest division official came and identified the skin of a leopard. When each the accused had been interrogated, they informed that about one particular and a half month ago, they had located a dead leopard in the forest. They brought the leopard at the hut and later hanged with a tree and removed the skin, teeth, and nails. The police also recovered teeth and other body components of leopard from them.