Police arrest four people for possessing rhino horns

Kathmandu: The Central Investigation Bureau (CIB), Nepal Police have arrested four persons for possessing rhino horns.

A CIB team mobilized for the prevention, control, and investigation of crime related to the environment and wildlife poaching and smuggling in wildlife parts and made the arrest based on a tip-off.

'Those arrested in this connection from local Kageshwari Manahara Municipality-7 are Pradip Magar of Melung Rural Municipality, Dolakha; Purna Singh Tamang, 50, of Manthali Municipality, Ramechhap district; Shree Krishna Nagarkoti, 31, of Budhanilkantha Municipality-13, Kathmandu district and Karna Tamang, 35, of Dupcheshwor Rural Municipality, Nuwakot district, said Superintendent of Police at CIB,' Nawaraj Adhikari.

CIB has handed them over to the Division Forest Office, Hattisar, Kathmandu, for further investigation and action. The Division Forest Office said they are being investigated under the National Parks and Wildlife Protection Act.

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