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Exotic animals worth Rs 1.3 crore seized in Mizoram near Myanmar border

Aizawl, Apr 3 (UNI) Mizoram’s Environment, Forests & Climate Change Department, along with the Assam Rifles, seized a consignment of exotic animals worth approximately Rs 1.3 crore at Zokhawthar village on Wednesday. The animals were being smuggled from Myanmar, officials of the Champhai Forest Division said.
Among the seized animals were one albino Burmese python, 27 African spurred tortoises, and three Patagonian maras.
Six people, including a Myanmar national, were arrested in connection with the smuggling.
The officials identified the accused as Thawnsuangmuang of Khawmawi in Myanmar’s Chin State and five others—Jessie Lalnunmawia, Biakzapianga, Lalzuitluangi, Denga, and Lalhmangaihthanga, all residents of Zokhawthar.
They were booked under relevant sections of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972, and produced before the Champhai Judicial District court, which remanded them to judicial custody and sent them to Champhai district jail the same day.
Meanwhile, in a separate case, officials from the Wildlife Division of neighbouring Khawzawl district recently arrested Biakchungnunga of Khawzawl town for poaching a barking deer and a rufous-throated partridge on March 26. He was also charged under the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972, and later produced before a district court in Champhai, which ordered his remand to Champhai district jail.
Authorities have stepped up vigilance along Mizoram’s border with Myanmar, as exotic wildlife smuggling has been on the rise in recent months.
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