Assam: Police apprehend two smugglers along with rhino horn
Guwahati: Police arrested two smugglers and recovered a rhino horn in Assam’s Jorhat district.
Acting on a tip-off, a police team of Jorhat district on Sunday night launched an operation at Teliapatty area in Titabor Sub-Division in Jorhat district and apprehended persons while they went to the area for selling a rhino horn.
The police team had recovered a rhino horn weighing about 1.158 kg in possession from them.
The apprehended persons were identified as Rajen Bauri and Azizul Rahman.
A senior police official of Jorhat district said that, the market value of the recovered rhino horn is estimated at around Rs 1.50 crore.
(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)
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