"Skinning or doing post-mortem on Himalayan Python in a jungle ?"

Rangpo, August 26, 2014: It is been barely two days when a dead Himalayan Python was spotted on bank of river Teesta in Bardang East Sikkim on 24 August. The locals informed the Wild Life Department about the sighting and the corpse was taken by the authority. Its come to the knowledge that said dead python belonged to schedule species of protected Wildlife under Wild Life Act 1972.

A strange thing now surfaces in video that inspite undergoing a preliminary investigation through post-mortem to find the cause of death as per the norms before disposing dead corpse was skinned by some group of people in a jungle. The astonishing video reveals a shocking insight of how authority let such practice of cannibalism of dead wild animal overlooking proper procedure as per the act.

The exclusive footage of skinning python is being questioned by several readers when it was published in social media page of VoiceofSikkim.

Could it be a lack of proper knowledge and procedure among the authority to handle such matter or it was deliberately done, these are the question being raised by readers and wild life enthusiastic across the world.

What might be the answer from Wild Life Department on this shocking revelation is awaited.