The Chamarajanagar police have arrested two suspected poachers and recovered the remains of a leopard they had allegedly shot dead and two country-made guns from them.
A team of police personnel from Kollegal rural police station, acting on a tip-off, waylaid two persons on a motorcycle near Chikkalluru on Saturday morning and found that the pillion rider was in possession of two country-made guns wrapped in a plastic cover.
The police immediately seized the unlicensed firearms and subjected the duo identified as Shantaraju and Arun, both residents of Doddainduvadi village, to interrogation, said a statement from the office of Superintendent of Chamarajanagar district police.
