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Rs 11 lakh reward announced to find Assam rhino poachers

Guwahati, Feb 3 (UNI): The Assam Police has announced a cash reward of Rs 11 lakh for providing information leading to the arrest of the poachers of a rhinoceros and for recovering its horn.

The rhinoceros was killed at the Kaziranga National Park (KNP) about a month ago. Assam’s Special Director General of Police, Law and Order, GP Singh, offered a cash reward of Rs 2 lakh each leading to the arrest of three suspected poachers and Rs 5 lakh for providing information facilitating the recovery of the killed rhino’s horn.

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The suspected poachers have been identified as Abdul Matin (36), Ataur Rahman (35) and Asmat Ali (35), all residents of Biswanath district of North Assam.

Singh, who is also the chief of the Anti-Rhino Poaching Task Force, tweeted the announcements and released photographs of the three suspected poachers.

The park officials said that the carcass of the female rhino, aged around 30 years, was found by the forest staff on January 20 and the horn was missing.

The Assam Police on January 26 deployed 20 commandos in Kaziranga for providing security in vulnerable areas and conducting special operations to curb poaching. Sniffer dogs were also occasionally deployed to track the poachers. The highest number of rhinos killed in Assam was 27 each in 2013 and 2014. Six were killed in 2017, seven in 2018, three in 2019 and two in 2020.

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