The Assam Police today arrested three suspected wildlife poachers involved in illegal trade in wildlife organs from a hotel in Diphu, the district headquarters town of Karbi Anglong hill district, and recovered five pieces of ivory from their possession. Karbi Anglong additional superintendent of police (ASP) N.N. Goswami, who led the operation, informed that acting on a tip-off that traders in wildlife organs were camping in Diphu looking for buyers, the police set up decoys as buyers to track them. A team of policemen in civvies today managed to arrest the gang of poachers from Hotel Holiday in Diphu town along with five pieces of ivory. They were identified as Kham Khan Soun ((48), Nur Islam (30) and Goupu Paite (30). Two of them hail from Karbi Anglong while the third person is from Dimapur in Nagaland. The police claimed that the arrested persons had confessed to links with the big network rhino poachers in the Kaziranga National Park. They are suspected to be involved in trading of rhino horns also. Assam wildlife and forest minister Rockybul Hussain earlier said a large inter-state network of poachers suspected to be aided by some insurgent groups was involved in the recent killings of precious rhinoceros in the Kaziranga National Park. Meanwhile, a citizens' meet held in the Guwahati Press Club this afternoon demanded a probe by the CBI into the recent incidents of rhino poaching in the Kaziranga National Park. The meeting, which was attended by prominent citizens, representatives of students organisations, officials of some wildlife NGOs, demanded that the authority of the Kaziranga National Park should every year issue a public notice informing the people about the annual counts of rhinos and other endangered animals in the Kaziranga National Park. The meeting condemning the state wildlife department for failing miserably in tackling rhino poachers in the park demanded the setting up of a monitoring committee on citizens concerned and NGOs to keep a tab on affairs in the Kaziranga National Park. The monitoring committee, however, should have no representative from the Assam Wildlife and Forest Department.