Aizawl: Officials from the Champhai Forest Division and Assam Rifles personnel rescued 31 exotic animals, during a joint operation at Zokhawthar village in East Mizoram’s Champhai district near the Myanmar border on Wednesday, an official said on Thursday.”
Regarding the cases the authority arrested 6 persons, including a Myanmar national for trafficking the exotics animals from Myanmar, worth around Rs. 1.3 crore in the international market, the official said.
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The rescued wildlife animals included 27 African spurred tortoises, 3 Patagonian maras and a Albino Burmese python, the official confirmed.
Moreover, the authority sent the six accused to a district jail in Champhai as per the district judicial magistrate’s order.
Earlier on March 26, officials of Khawzawl district wildlife division arrested a poacher and sent him to Champhai district jail on a magistrate order for allegedly shooting a barking deer and a rufous throated partridge in the forest, the official added.
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