Guwahati: The Assam police seized a rhino horn after tracking down a suspected poacher in Assam’s Nagaon disatrict on Friday.
The suspected poacher was arrested from Santijaan area of Batadrava.
“After getting specefic inputs, the a team of Nagaon police conducted a search operation in the Santijaan area and held the poacher from that particular place,” said a source.
The accused was identified as Hatem Ali.
In an attempt to evade capture, Ali fled the scene, but the police were later able to seize a rhino horn from his hideout located in a wholesale fish market in the Santijaan area.
Sources said rhino poaching has been a going on in Assam, with several cases reported each year.
Earlier on April 3, three rhino poachers were apprehended in the Dhemaji district.
The police nabbed Bheem Doley, Ram Mili, and Jon Pegu during an operation in the Gogamukh area of Dhemaji and seized a rhino horn weighing 950 grams and measuring 8 inches in length.
All three individuals were residents of Dhokuakhana in the Lakhimpur district.
“We have arrested Hatem Ali and he was kept in our custody. We have started interogating him from where he have procured the rhino horn,” said a police official.