{"id":184796,"date":"2022-02-22T00:25:58","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T18:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=184796"},"modified":"2022-02-22T00:25:58","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T18:55:58","slug":"assam-rhino-poacher-jumps-into-brahmaputra-escapes-from-police-custody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/02\/22\/assam-rhino-poacher-jumps-into-brahmaputra-escapes-from-police-custody\/","title":{"rendered":"Assam: Rhino poacher jumps into Brahmaputra, escapes from police custody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tezpur (Assam), Feb 21 (PTI) A suspected rhino poacher, who was recently arrested from Kerala, escaped from police custody by jumping into the Brahmaputra river in Assam&#8217;s Biswanath district, a top police officer said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The incident happened on February 17 and search operations are underway to locate him, she said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Superintendent of Police Leena Doley told PTI that the most-wanted criminal was arrested in association with Kerala Police, and was brought to the district on the night of February 16.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A resident of Biswanath district, he was wanted in connection with poaching of several rhinoceros in the state, including a recent incident of killing of the animal in Kaziranga National Park.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Assam Police had announced an award of Rs 2 lakh for information leading to his arrest, while Rs 5 lakh prize money was declared for information leading to recovery of the rhino horn that was poached.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He was being taken to a site&#8230; but taking advantage of the darkness, he jumped into the Brahmaputra river with his handcuffs on, Doley said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tezpur (Assam), Feb 21 (PTI) A suspected rhino poacher, who was recently arrested from Kerala, escaped from police custody by jumping into the Brahmaputra river in Assam&#8217;s Biswanath district, a top police officer said on Monday. The incident happened on February 17 and search operations are underway to locate him, she said. Superintendent of Police [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-184796","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-north-east"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}