The joint operation was carried out against poachers by the troops of the 24th Battalion of SSB, Rangiya, and the forest officials of Kumarikata.
In the joint operation, one poacher was arrested, identified as – Dewan Soren, 28. He was found carrying bows, and organs of various animals were found in his possession. The accused is a resident of Dongargaon Village of Tamulpur.
A casque of a hornbill bird (an endangered sub-tropical bird) has been recovered from the man’s possession along with the arms probably used to kill the bird, along the Indo-Bhutan Border near Tamulpur subdivision Baksa district.
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