ES Reporter 

ITANAGAR,  Jun 16: A joint team of Capital Police and Assam Forest, Eastern Range, Kaziranga National Park & World Heritage Site has  nabbed one Rijen Pegu in connection with Kaziranga National Park poaching case of a horned rhinoceros and smuggling of the rhino horn in international market.
The Assam Forest team from the World Heritage Site, Kaziranga National Park approached SP Capital Tumme Amo on last  Friday  afternoon seeking cooperation  in the said  poaching case(Case No ER/01 of 2019). Responding to the request, SP Amo immediately constituted a team from Capital Police led by SI N Nishant and accordingly on June 15  at around 0730 hours the joint team arrested Rijen Pegu, aged about 30 years of  Gohpur, Assam presently residing at Gandhi Market, Itanagar.
The  arrest has been made within 15 hours  due to an intensive search operation by the joint team of Capital Police & Eastern Range, Kaziranga. SI Nishant personally monitored the Call Details Record (CDR) and Present Tower Location (PTL) of the accused, informed SP. As per reports, a rhino was killed about a week back with  its horn removed  and  usually  in such cases poachers resort to illegal trading in international market at high cost. The arrested accused has played the role of a broker and reportedly sold  the horn at Rs 30 lakhs.
SP further disclosed that the poachers including the elder brother of the arrested had come to Itanagar with the rhino horn to sell it to some middle-man but a deal could not be materialized. Hence, they kept the rhino horn with Pegu for few days and with his help  they again came back a week later and sold it to a middle-man at Rs 30 lakhs and reportedly, the  horn has already been smuggled out of India.
Some mobile sets and various incriminating documents & records have been recovered from the arrested person who has been sent to Kaziranga National Park Eastern Forest Range Assam on transit remand issued by court, informed SP Amo.

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Kenter Joya Riba

(Managing Editor)
      She is a graduate in Science with post graduation in Sociology from University of Pune. She has been in the media industry for nearly a decade. Before turning to print business, she has been associated with radio and television.
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