According to STF sources, Badshah and Mushtaq were arrested from Kabirganj village under Hazara police station area in Pilibhit district.
During questioning, Mushtaq is said to have told interrogators that tigers from Dudhwa National Park often came out of the reserve forest area and it was then that the gang would either poach or poison them.
They said that they sold the skin and other body parts of tigers at high prices to international buyers through middlemen in Nepal, sources said.