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“Though all other accused were arrested, we had no clue about Thankachi, who organized ivory smuggling. Thundathil forest range officer Sijo Samuel said the court asked her to appear before Kothamangalam court on April 26. This is yet to be confirmed,” he said.Thankachi, a native of Pettah in Thiruvananthapuram , was one of the main accused in the case pertaining to poaching of 11 tuskers at Thundathil range in 2015. KOCHI: In a major breakthrough, Kolkata Thankachi alias Sindhu—one of the accused in a poaching case registered at Thundathil forest range office in 2015—was arrested on Tuesday in Kolkata.Thankachi, who had been on the run for the past four years, was arrested during a joint operation conducted by a team of Thundathil forest range officers and Kolkata police. She was produced before a court in Kolkata and granted bail..