West Bengal police seize eight kg of ivory

     Siliguri (WB): The West Bengal Police have arrested one person and recovered six pieces of ivory worth more than 8,000 dollars from him. Bhushan Roy was arrested when police sent a decoy team to strike a deal on the outskirts of Siliguri town in Darjeeling district. Police said ivory pieces weighed 7.9 kilograms and would fetch more than 8,000 dollars in the international market. "Two days ago we got information from our source that there is one person with ivory who is searching for customer. On that information we planted one source as a customer, one police staff went there and today between 2 and 3 p.m. the deal was struck for 60,000 rupees. When we got the information we raided the house and recovered six pieces of ivory," said Tripurari, additional superintendent of police of Siliguri.
- April 25, 2005

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