Assam
Assam police nabs three poachers
Guwahati/UNI: In a combined operation with security forces Assam police have apprehended three poachers from Baksa district in Lower Assam and recovered large quantities of animal skin and body parts.
A joint team of the Sashastra Seema Bal, the Assam Police and the Forest Department carried out this operation. The poachers have been identified as Lankeswar Basumatari, Binod Basumatari and Madan Gayatri.
Two elephant tusks weighing 3.75 kg, a deer horn, a country-made gun, ammunition and other items have been recovered from them.
The operation was conducted following a tip-off about the poachers’ activities in the area.
The SSB said the three poachers were involved in poaching of an elephant at Jamguri forest two weeks ago and had cut off its tusks.
As per details provided by the officials, the poachers kept the elephant tusks at home to sell them later.
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