Two held for involvement in smuggling of rhino horns

GUWAHATI: Two persons, including an Assam forest department employee, were arrested for their alleged involvement in smuggling of rhino horns, an official said on Thursday.
Officials of the Eastern Assam Wildlife Division nabbed the two on Wednesday, following an interrogation of an alleged poacher and wildlife organ smuggler, who had been arrested accosted earlier.
The arrested duo has been identified as Abdul Ali and Bimala Saikia. The latter is an employee of the Kaziranga National Park, divisional forest officer Ramesh Kumar Gogoi said. It was alleged that while Ali sold a rhino horn to the arrested poacher and smuggler, it was provided to him by Saikia. The forest employee was arrested earlier in a similar case and was out on bail, Gogoi added.
Two suspected poachers were also apprehended with a tusk in Baksa district along the India-Bhutan border on Wednesday.