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2 TN natives apprehended in B'luru for smuggling exotic turtles from Malaysia
The New Indian Express Vellore
|May 22, 2025
IN yet another case of wildlife smuggling from southeast Asian countries involving Tamil Nadu natives, customs officials at the Bengaluru international airport apprehended two men from Thanjavur and Thiruvarur, who had brought 2,952 red-eared slider turtles in their check-in luggage on an IndiGo flight from Malaysia, in the early hours of Wednesday.
Sources said Bengaluru Customs apprehended Manivelan Gopinath (41) of Thanjavur and Govindasamy Sudhakar (56) of Thiruvaur, who landed in Bengaluru on the 6E-1038 flight from Kuala Lumpur late on Tuesday. Their check-in baggage contained 1,652 and 1,280 turtles respectively, for which they had no official documentation. The turtles were sei
This story is from the May 22, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Vellore.
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