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A Bangladeshi nationalist was among 9 wildlife traffickers arrested successful occidental Assam’s Chirang territory astir midnight connected Friday (June 19, 2026).
The Assam Police’s Special Task Force (STF) arrested the 9 with assistance from the Chirang constabulary on Bamungaon Road nether Sidli constabulary station. Eight aureate langurs were recovered from their possession, and 1 of them was recovered dead.
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The aureate langur is an endangered taxon notified nether Schedule I of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972, with a blackmarket worth of astir ₹16 lakh, officials said.
The arrested Bangladeshi nationalist was identified arsenic Mohammed Jamal. He said helium was from Dhaka and entered India connected June 15. Officials suspected that helium entered the state illegally.
An STF spokesperson said 5 of Jamal’s accomplices — Injamamul Hoque Mondal, Abdul Khalek Mondal, Fakir Chand Mandal, Alomgir Mulla, and Latibul Shaikh — are from West Bengal. The remaining three, identified arsenic Jackson Biswakarma, Ranjit Narzary, and Pinkush Narzary, are from Assam.
He said the 9 were portion of a large planetary wildlife trafficking network. They were transporting the primates successful 2 vehicles.
Chirang Divisional Forest Officer Kunjan Basumatary said 2 cages were arranged for the aureate langurs, arsenic they had been kept successful suffocating sacks.
“The langurs were nether stress. They volition beryllium released successful their earthy situation soon successful the beingness of a magistrate,” helium said.
Mr. Basumatary said that the animals were captured from the Ultapani country of Kokrajhar territory and were being trafficked done section intermediaries successful Chirang for transportation to prospective buyers. The 2 vehicles utilized to smuggle the primates were seized.
“Considering that a Bangladeshi is involved, we tin telephone it an planetary wildlife trafficking gang. They had plans to instrumentality the animals to West Bengal and from there, to the planetary blackmarket,” helium said, adding that the constabulary and the Forest Department would analyse if much radical were portion of the gang.
Woman from Dhaka held
On Tuesday (June 17, 2026), the constabulary arrested a 24-year-old pistillate from the Lokapriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport successful Guwahati aft she admitted to being a Bangladeshi national.
Officials said the airdrome authorities became suspicious of her movements portion she was collecting her baggage aft arriving connected an evening formation from Bengaluru. She was recovered utilizing a fake Aadhaar card.
Later, interrogated by the State police’s Border Branch (it is tasked with detecting and detaining overseas nationals who participate Assam illegally) and the Border Security Force, the pistillate said she was a nonmigratory of Narayanganj adjacent Bangladesh’s superior Dhaka.
Police said she allegedly entered India done Tripura with the assistance of a quality trafficker. “Before she crossed over, she was provided with a forged Aadhaar paper successful the sanction of Puja Das, with an code successful West Bengal,” an authoritative said.
The pistillate was sent to the transit campy (detention centre) astatine Matia successful south-western Assam’s Goalpara territory for further ineligible proceedings.
The constabulary successful Guwahati besides detained 13 suspected Bangladeshi nationals connected Friday (June 19, 2026) during a regular verification drive. They were staying astatine a guesthouse and possessed documents of doubtful origin, the constabulary said.
