India, July 1 -- Two serving Maharashtra Police personnel were arrested with two tiger skins in Chhattisgarh's Kanker district, and a subsequent search at one of their homes led to the recovery of a large quantity of pangolin scales, forest officials said on Wednesday.

Baburao Madavi and Bijeshwar Gedam were apprehended in the Bande area of the West Bhanupratappur Forest Division along the Chhattisgarh-Maharashtra border on the intervening night of Monday and Tuesday while they were transporting two tiger skins on a motorcycle, divisional forest officer S Naveenkumar said.

The operation was jointly carried out by the Anti-Poaching Unit of the Udanti Sitanadi Tiger Reserve, the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau's Central and Western Regional...