Overview

• Specific intelligence led Mumbai Airport Customs to detain 32-year-old Suhail Ahmed on July 11 for carrying prohibited wildlife.
• Officials found two live Sumatran Striped Rabbits, a dead Great Billed Parrot and an Indochinese Box Turtle hidden in Ahmed’s luggage.
• In a voluntary statement, Ahmed confessed to transporting the animals for payment under instructions from unidentified syndicate members.
• Separately, two arrivals from Bangkok were held for attempting to smuggle meerkats, parrots, rabbits and a turtle.
• Authorities have forwarded species photographs to the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau as investigations target a larger trafficking network and arrange animal care and repatriation.