Dehra Dun, Mar 7 (PTI) The carcass of a leopard cub, suspected to have died of food poisoning, was found in the forests of Garsara in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand, an official said today. The one-year-old female leopard cub was found dead by villagers in a field yesterday, said D K Singh, Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) of Kedarnath. A postmortem has found contaminated meat of a monkey in the leopard's stomach, suggesting that it died of food poisoning, he said. Meanwhile, a forest department team yesterday arrested a man called Khankaru for allegedly possessing a leopard skin at Mori area of Uttarkashi district.
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