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Five arrested for illegal bird hunting in Assam's Bholakata Beel.

A live Cotton Pygmy Goose, a protected species, was seized.

Items like nets and phones were confiscated as evidence.

Five persons were arrested on December 9, Tuesday for allegedly setting up net traps to hunt wild birds at Bholakata Beel in Biswanath district. The operation was carried out after the Central Range, Biswanath Ghat, received a tip-off about illegal hunting activities in the area.

Acting on the input, a joint team led by the Range Forest Officer of Central Range, Biswanath Ghat, and the Range Forest Officer of the Crime Investigation Range, Biswanath, reached the site and apprehended the accused red-handed.

Forest officials seized one live wild bird, suspected to be a Cotton Pygmy Goose,

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