GUWAHATI: During the early hours of Tuesday, 44 unlawfully smuggled cattle were found in Jorabat as a result of a search operation carried out by the Assam Police.
Sources claim that on NH-37, the police stopped two trucks carrying animals. Abdul Kalam and Abdul Hamid, two smugglers, were detained in connection with the matter.
The animals were smuggled out of Assam's Mangaldai and Baihata, according to sources. The truck and the animals have been retrieved by the legal authorities.
On February 27, the Jorabat Police stopped a truck at Jorabat that was allegedly transporting livestock into Meghalaya illegally. Sources claim that the truck was hauling 30 cows in total of contraband cattle.
As the car was leaving Nagaon for Meghalaya, it was stopped. The vehicle and the animals were retrieved by the police. The truck driver, though, had already escaped the scene. The car's identification number was AS-01-PC-8357.
The Nagaon police, responding to a tip-off, detained three smugglers in connection with the case on March 23 and recovered a rhino horn.
Khaliluddin, Jakir Hussain, and Akbar Ali, all from the Rupohihat region, were the people who were arrested. The three smugglers were apprehended in Rupohihat's Ambagan neighbourhood.
Earlier, in a major breakthrough in the fight against rhino poaching, two poachers were apprehended in a joint operation by Biswanath police and Gohpur police in the southern region of Gohpur. Pankaj Pegu and Arvind Pegu have been recognised as the poachers.
In the southern region of Gohpur, the two allegedly devised a plan to kill a rhino that was emerging from the Sixth Addition of Kaziranga. Nevertheless, their scheme was halted when law enforcement officials caught wind of their operations. The two rhino poachers have already been detained by the Gohpur police, who have also filed a case under section 120B/447 of the IPC.
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