Crime in India
Illegal wildlife trade in India has increased.  There are laws against killing some animals, taking rare plants, and smuggling them into other countries.  But a report published by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) in 2004 said that more traders of wildlife skins go to India than any other country.  Between 1994 and 2003, there were 784 cases where the skins of tigers, leopards, or otters have been seized (taken away from illegal traders by police).  Also between 1994 and 2003, police seized 698 otters who had been poached (illegally taken or killed).