Overview
- Police teams from Biswanath, Majuli and Lakhimpur carried out a joint action that disrupted the attempt and led to three arrests.
- Those arrested were identified as Muhikanta Pegu, Manuj Pathari and Kiran Pegu, according to police and park officials.
- Based on information from the detainees, officers recovered a .303 rifle and nine 70 mm 12-bore cartridges from the Biswanath home of Debajit Pegu, who is absconding.
- Earlier, a pre-dawn encounter near a Brahmaputra sandbar in the Burapahar range left one suspected poacher dead after forest guards returned fire in self-defence.
- Authorities said cases have been registered and intensive searches are underway to locate accomplices who fled the scene.