haridwar an analysis of the animal remains found stuffed inside a bag recovered from rajaji tiger reserve in march by the wildlife institute of india wii has revealed that of the five samples examined three were of leopard and two were tiger remains the revelation has added a new twist to the case as it was earlier being assumed that the bag contained only leopard remains the presence of tiger remains observers said lent the matter far greater seriousness incidentally after the bag was discovered a blame game had started among forest officials and there were allegations that senior officials and a few ngo representatives were aware of the poaching incident three people have been arrested in the matter so far skin of leopard flesh and bones were recovered from four different pits on march 22 this year in dudhia range of haridwar division of rajaji tiger reserve however officials earlier claimed that remains were related to leopard and five samples collected from the spot had been sent to wildlife institute of india for further examination meanwhile main accused amit alias sonu alias omprakash a resident of kanjar basti in railwala was arrested by the forest department who also worked as an informer for the forest department and during investigation he revealed names of three accomplices who were involved in this matter two of them identified as panchi nath and sanjo nath surrendered in the court while another accused yogesh is still at large according to the forest department he is also trying to surrender before the court and a surrender application has been moved by him through his lawyer in district court on wednesday however with the dna samples report by wii the case has taken a serious turn a senior officer of forest department told toi on condition of anonymity we had sent five samples to wii and their report confirmed that three were leopard and samples were of two tiger now the question is where the poachers killed the big cat it is a serious concern for us we will try to take the accused on remand for questioning it looks like a big conspiracy to trap someone we also suspect involvement of a deputy ranger and ngo representatives we have submitted a report of our investigation to higher officials to form a special investigation team for conducting further inquiry rajaji director sanatan sonkar however said that he is yet to receive any report by the wii i did not receive any report from the wildlife institute of india officially in this matter but our intention is clear and strict action will be taken in the matter investigation is on sonkar said