Poacher detained at Bhetapara area in Guwahati

STAFF REPORTER

GUWAHATI: Forest Department personnel detained a suspected poacher from the Bhetapara area here on Wednesday night. The detention has been made on the request of West Bengal Forest department.

Sources informed that the poacher identified as Jamaluddin from Manipur lives in a rented place here. He plies a cab under Uber.

The case relates to the poaching of a rhinocerous in West Bengal on March 31, 2021. Sleuths zeroed down on Jamaluddin after his mobile phone was traced at the location of the incident in Bengal.

The Assam Forest Department on Thursday handed over Jamaluddin to its West Bengal counterpart.

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