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DRI nabs two persons with about 6 kg ivory

By TIOL News Service

GUWAHATI, MAY 27, 2018: THE Kolkata DRI intercepted two persons near Guwahati Railway Station and recovered 24 pieces of ivory totally weighing 5.838 Kgs from their possession yesterday.

The interception took place as the recipient of the ivory Suraj Kr Das hailing from West Bengal was in the process of receiving the package from one Md. Badrul Hussain, hailing from Hojai district of Assam. Suraj Kr Das is a contractual employee of Railways working as a coach attendant of Saraighat Express Train.

Interrogation of the two persons have revealed that Md. Badrul Hussain had picked up the package containing ivory from a person at Hojai in Assam and was supposed to deliver it to Suraj Kr. Das who would have in turn delivered it to another person at New Jalpaiguri who would have smuggled it to Nepal through the border townships at North Bengal.

It has been confirmed by Wildlife officials that these tusks have been extracted after killing at least five adult and sub-adult elephants, and since the ivory has been sourced from Hojai it is believed that the elephants were in all likelihood killed in the Karbi Anglong region of Assam.

It is a known fact that endangered species are regularly being slaughtered for their parts especially because of the rising demand in the international market. In a recent case DRI had seized 12.410 Kgs of ivory from a bus at Siliguri on 15.02.2018 . In that case too the ivory was sourced from Lakhimpur district of Assam. Further investigation to unearth the masterminds behind the gang of poachers and smugglers of animal parts is in progress.


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