{"id":40248,"date":"2024-08-13T02:37:40","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T02:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/13\/exotic-pets-smuggling-bids-foiled-at-chennai-airport-n-f-times\/"},"modified":"2024-08-13T02:37:42","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T02:37:42","slug":"exotic-pets-smuggling-bids-foiled-at-chennai-airport-n-f-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/13\/exotic-pets-smuggling-bids-foiled-at-chennai-airport-n-f-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Exotic pets smuggling bids foiled at Chennai airport &#8211; N.F Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Chennai: Exotic pets smuggling bids have been foiled at Chennai airport, following which 22 wildlife species were seized from a passenger.<\/p>\n<p>The accused has been identified as Mohamed Meera Sardharali who came from Thailand.<\/p>\n<p>Reportedly, One Siamang Gibbon (monkey native to Indonesia, and Malaysia), two Sunda flying lemurs, one red-foot tortoise, 5 Indo Chene box turtles, 9 four-eyed turtles, 1-keeled box turtle, 2 green tree pythons and 1 white-lipped python have been recovered.<\/p>\n<p>Both the passenger and receiver outside the airport were arrested.<\/p>\n<p>In a follow-up operation, a house in Kolathur was searched where more wildlife was seized including \u2013 an Indian roofed turtle, Tricarinate hill turtle, black pond turtle, star tortoise and royal ball python.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] \u00a0 Chennai: Exotic pets smuggling bids have been foiled at Chennai airport, following which 22 wildlife species were seized from a passenger. The accused has been identified as Mohamed Meera Sardharali who came from Thailand. Reportedly, One Siamang Gibbon (monkey native to Indonesia, and Malaysia), two Sunda flying lemurs, one red-foot tortoise, 5 Indo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Exotic-pets-smuggling-bids-foiled-at-Chennai-airport.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40250,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40248\/revisions\/40250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}