Shimla : Police have arrested three men in Shimla district’s Chopal area for trying to smuggle out a skin of a leopard killed recently .
Media reports quoted a local police official saying that bags of three passing men was searched and they found the skin of the leopard .
Illegal hunting picks up every winter in snow covered Himachal Pradesh . This is also the time when wild animals like leopards move into villages and hamlets in search of food.
