GUWAHATI : Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, Guwahati Zonal Unit intercepted two persons near Guwahati Railway Station and recovered 24 pieces of ivory totally weighing 5.838 Kgs from their possession on 26th May, 2018.
The interception took place as the recipient of the ivory Shri Suraj Kr Das hailing from West Bengal was in the process of receiving the package from one Md. Badrul Hussain from Hojai district of Assam.
Shri Suraj Kr Das is a contractual employee of Railways working as a coach attendant of Saralyhat Express Train.
Interrogation of the two persons have revealed that Md. Badrul Hussain had picked up the package containing ivory from a person of Hojai in Assam and was supposed to deliver it to ShriSuraj Kr. Das who would have in turn delivered it to another person at New Jalpaiguri who would have smuggled it to Nepal through the border townships at North Bengal.
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