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By FP Trending
October 26, 2022 14:38:36 IST
A few months back a Deutsche Welle report revealed that India has witnessed a surge in the illicit smuggling of exotic animals through border countries like Bangladesh and Myanmar. While the smuggling of small exotic wildlife creatures is rapidly on the rise, several cases hold evidence that animal trafficking hasn’t spared big animals like kangaroos. In a recent turn of events, customs officials seized as many as five exotic animals from a passenger’s bag at Chennai Airport. The passenger, who has been arrested now, was smuggling five Dwarf and Common-spotted Cuscus from Bangkok in check-in baggage on Sunday. The incident came to light after the official Twitter page of Chennai customs shared the video of the exotic animals with the information in the caption.