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The customs officials astatine the Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) successful Bengaluru intercepted a mates from Kerala arriving from Bangkok and seized respective exotic wildlife taxon that were illegally brought into the country.
According to officials, the seized animals see a white-cheeked gibbon, a monkey, and 4 hornbill, and 2 Javan Myna.
The duo were caught portion trying to get retired of the airdrome with the check-in baggage successful which they concealed the wildlife. They were expected to manus implicit the baggage to contacts waiting extracurricular the airport.
The accused, identified arsenic Manzoor Ali Thenethu Parambil and his woman Khairunneesa Kozhithodi, were arrested nether provisions of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972, for amerciable import and possession of protected species.
The duo, according to the officials, are portion of the planetary wildlife smuggling racket and moving arsenic mules for them. A elaborate probe is nether mode to hint the root of the animals and place imaginable links to planetary wildlife trafficking networks.
The rescued wildlife person been quarantined and volition beryllium deported backmost to Thailand.
