In their continued intensified operation against the alarmingly increasing incidents of poaching of one-horned rhinos in Orang National Park (ONP), the joint effort of the police and the ONP authority have resulted the arrest of two hardcore rhino poachers and recovery of a 303 rifle from their possession. As reported, a team of police and Park authority led by Sub Inspector Sahabuddin Ahmed in charge of Silbori police out post of Dalgaon police station in Darrang district and Jayanta Deka Range office of ONP on the night of June 1 arrested two poachers namely Amir Hussain and his brother Tayubar Ali of Kalai sar near Kharupetia town and recovered one .303 rifle. Significantly, an axe meant for cutting the rhino horn, a bag containing ration for their hide out period during poaching and sports shoes were also recovered from their possession which indicated that they were planning to kill rhinos within a very short period. Both the arrested poachers have reportedly confessed their involvement in killing of rhinos in ONP along with one absconding poacher Hanif of Bihudiya near Kharupetia town and the recently arrested poacher Giausuddin. They also confessed that one Naga sharp shooter from Dimapur in Nagaland was also brought to Kharupetia to kill the rhinos. Dhruba Hazarika Deputy Commissioner, Darrang has appreciated the joint initiative taken by the ONP authority and police to check the increasing incidents of poaching in the Park. Mention may be made here that at present the Park is having 68 number of one-horned rhinos in the Park of which the organized gang of armed poachers killed three in the last week of April last. However, due to the prompt alert of the forest guards they failed in removing the three horns. The state government has already deployed two sections of armed jawans of Home Guards in the Park to assist the Park authority in conservation and protection of the rhinos. Meanwhile the Darrang district committee of Asom Jatiyatabadi Yuba Chatra Parishad (AJYCP), Mangaldai Media Circle. Green Society, Freedom both non-government voluntary organizations have appreciated the positive action taken up by the police and the Park authority for the arrest and the recovery of rifle used in poaching.