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The ineligible proceedings against the passengers person been initiated arsenic per the provisions of Customs Act, 1962, and Wildlife Protection Act, 1972. (Representative image)
Customs officials astatine the Mumbai airdrome arrested 2 passengers coming from Bangkok connected Monday and seized 4 smuggled exotic birds.
The seized birds belonged to taxon Tarictic/Visayan hornbills (Penelopides panini), which is listed successful Appendix-Il of CITES (Convention connected International Trade successful Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) and Schedule IV of the recently amended Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972 and Sulawesi Hornbills (Rhabdotorrhinus exarhatus).
Customs officials nabbed the suspects aft they received circumstantial intelligence. The seized Hornbills were concealed successful rectangular boxes beneath the nutrient packets kept successful the trolley bags of the rider to debar detection, the Customs officials said.
The Customs department handed implicit Hornbills to the Airlines unit for deportation.
The ineligible proceedings against the passengers person been initiated arsenic per the provisions of Customs Act, 1962, and Wildlife Protection Act, 1972. Both the fishy passengers were aboriginal released connected bail.
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