Guwahati

Assam: 4 Held for Smuggling Tiger Skin in Azara's Dharapur Locality

Police arrested four people from the Dharapur locality of Azara on Wednesday and recovered the skin of a tiger along with its bones and nails.

Sentinel Digital Desk

 STAFF REPORTER

GUWAHATI: Police arrested four people from the Dharapur locality of Azara on Wednesday and recovered the skin of a tiger along with its bones and nails. The identities of the four arrested people were revealed by police sources to be Ramu Das, Om Prakash, Raiputi, and Maya. While the first two are men, the latter two are women, and all of them belong to the state of Haryana. They had taken a rented accommodation in Dharapur Notunbasti just two days before they were caught. On questioning, they mentioned that they were mere mules in the trade and were transporting the contraband for a sum of Rs 25000. They also mentioned that they had picked up the items from Bihar. The police authorities picked them up from the rented accommodations and handed them over to the forest department of the state.

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