Katihar: Over 100 tortoises were seized today from a train and one person was arrested in this connection from Katihar railway junction, an official said.
During checking in a general compartment of Ajmer-Kishanganj Garib Nawaz Express, the GRP men seized over 100 tortoises and nabbed the man, Railway Superintendent of Police (SP), Katihar, Umashankar Prasad said.
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The man was bringing these animals for delivery to a client at New Jalpaiguri in West Bengal.
He had boarded the train with 100 tortoises at Faizabad station in Uttar Pradesh and was paid Rs 300 by a member of a smuggling racket for transportation and delivery of the reptiles to the client, he said.
The tortoises will be handed over to the forest department, Prasad added.