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6 `poachers' arrested in Orang NP, rifle, ammunition recovered

Carcass of rhino calf found

From our Correspondent

MANGALDAI, April 17: In a significant achievement achieved in the

field of conservation of Orang National Park, that too on the day of

Goru Bihu (the auspicious day when cows are offered respect), a joint

team of Silbari police and the Park authority arrested a gang of six

suspected poachers and recovered a .303 country-made rifle along with

several rounds of ammunition.

Sources here have said that the joint police team, acting on a tip

off, raided the house of one Nur Jamal of Hamu Char— a riverine char

of the river Brahmaputra adjacent to the park on the night of April 14

and recovered the rifle along with ammunition which were buried in his

court yard.

Nur Jaman, his three brothers— Sheikh Jamal, Atabuddin Ali and Nurul

Amin— along with Ahabuddin Ahmed and Babul Hussain of the same

locality have been detained for interrogation. Though the detainees

are yet to confess their involvement in poaching in the park, they

confessed that the rifle and the ammunition were brought from Dimapur

in Nagaland.

Meanwhile, in another development, the recovery of the carcass of a

two-year-old female rhino calf near the Amulya camp inside the Orang

National Park recently has created concern among wildlife activists

here even though the rhino population in the Park was found to be on

the increase.

However, Sukumar Momin, DFO (Wildlife), has ruled out the involvement

of poachers in the killing of the rhino calf. He said that the of

cause of the death was due to an attack of the tigers, which was

evident from the claw marks of the tiger.