Gaba, Yaseen and Mohammad Shafiwere arrested from a hotel on way to Haldwani near Bahrani village yesterday and a tiger skin was recovered from their possession,Chief Conservator of Forests (Kumaun)Rajendra Singh Bisht said.
The tiger skin appears to be about four months old of an approximately nine-year-old big cat, he said.
"It does not look like a stand-alone poaching incident. A team of senior forest officials is looking into possible links of the arrested poachers with other gangs involved in poaching of tigers," Bisht said.