In the Nagaon district of Assam, the forest officers discovered the remains of several wild animals, including two leopard skins.
Authorities from the Nagaon Forest Division on Wednesday began an operation in the areas of Doboka Namati and Kampur and found two leopard skins as well as a few pangolin skins.
In connection with the crime, the forest officers also arrested four people identified as Abdul Rahman, Afaz Uddin, Samed Ali, and Nizam Uddin.
The trio is accused by the forest officers of smuggling rhino horns close to Kaziranga National Park.
Assam’s Orang National Park was the site of a case of poachers using tranquilizers to remove rhino horn earlier this year, which presented a new challenge for the state’s forest department to preserve one-horned rhinoceros.
According to reports, poachers in the national park hacked off the horn without killing a sub-adult rhino.
On May 9, park officials learned of the incident and found a dehorned sub-adult male rhino aged 10-12 years in the Muwamari part of the park.
