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Their arrests subsequently led to the arrests of Anuwar Islam and Musabbar Rahman of Sootea in Assam’s Sonitpur district . During the operation the team recovered Rs 12 lakh Yakub kept with his mother Fatima Khatun. The recent arrests have given a blow to the gang,” he added. The dinghy was newly procured, and Kasim had planned to use it in poaching this time once the park is inundated,” Baruah said.Kasim was arrested following the lead from another arrest of rhino poacher Yakub Ali by a team of Kaziranga’s northern forest range officials and police at Panbazar here on June 28. Islam and Rahman had planned to kill a rhino using poison-dipped arrow to avoid making noise from gunfire shots.Islam and Rahman however, did kill a rhino with firearm as poison did not reach them following the earlier arrests of Ngaihte and Tamang.A senior official in Kaziranga said that the gang has widespread networks of rhino horn buyers, arms suppliers and hideouts in multiple states including in West Bengal, Kerala and Karnataka “This is a well-equipped and highly networked gang..