The Special Task Force of Odisha Crime Branch police has confiscated two elephant tusks from Keonjhar district taking the number of seized tusks to 15 since 2020.
On being tipped off, a team of the STF conducted a raid along with the Karanjia forest officials on the road between village Patung and Kalanda under the Keonjhar Sadar police station on Saturday.
They apprehended one person of Keonjhar district. During the search, two tusks weighing 5.662 kg and incriminating material were recovered from him, the STF said.