{"id":69794,"date":"2019-06-17T00:52:05","date_gmt":"2019-06-16T19:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=69794"},"modified":"2019-06-17T00:52:05","modified_gmt":"2019-06-16T19:22:05","slug":"rhino-poacher-nabbed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/06\/17\/rhino-poacher-nabbed\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhino poacher nabbed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, Jun 16:<\/strong> A broker and close associate of rhino poachers in the Kaziranga National Park was nabbed from here by a joint team of the Capital unit police and Assam Forest officials, Eastern Range, Kaziranga National Park &amp; World Heritage Site, on Saturday.<br \/>\nRijen Pegu (30 years), who was residing at Gandhi Market here, was apprehended by a police team led by SI N Nishant, for allegedly poaching a horned rhinoceros and for being instrumental in smuggling the horn in the international market.<br \/>\nCapital SP Tumme Amo informed that a team from the Kaziranga National Park had approached the SP on Friday regarding the case, and a team led by SI N Nishant was immediately constituted.<br \/>\nAs per reports, the rhino was killed about a week earlier, and the horn removed.<br \/>\n&#8220;The arrested accused, along with his older brother, allegedly tried to sell the horn to a middle man. However, since the deal could not materialize, they took the horn back and returned about a week later and sold it to a middle man,&#8221; the SP informed.<br \/>\nReportedly, the horn has already been smuggled out of India.<br \/>\nA few mobile sets and various incriminating documents and records have been recovered from the arrested person who<br \/>\nhas been handed over to the Kaziranga National Park Eastern Forest Range, Assam on transit remand issued by the court, the SP said, adding: &#8220;The involvement of some local youths cannot be ruled out in the instant case.&#8221;<br \/>\nMeanwhile, the Assam Forest department has appreciated the Arunachal Pradesh Police for the swift action taken in nabbing the accused.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, Jun 16: A broker and close associate of rhino poachers in the Kaziranga National Park was nabbed from here by a joint team of the Capital unit police and Assam Forest officials, Eastern Range, Kaziranga National Park &amp; World Heritage Site, on Saturday. Rijen Pegu (30 years), who was residing at Gandhi Market here, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-69794","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69794","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=69794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}