"Daru alias Dora Pardi was arrested from Burhali village last night and handed over to Gujarat CID this noon," divisional forest officer A K Baronia said.

Pardi was a member of inter-state gang of poachers and was wanted by Maharashtra and Karnataka police in connection with certain poaching cases, he said, adding the accused used to sell off animals' body-parts to smugglers.

Earlier, a smuggler arrested along with 65 hides of tiger from Karnataka had confessed that he got the skins from Pardi, Baronia said.