A mobile court of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) 10 in Dhaka has sentenced three people to nine months of imprisonment each for selling turtles of endangered species. During the raid, the law enforcement officials also recovered a number of turtles meant for selling. There is a ban on selling and buying such rare turtles in Bangladesh. Of them, Ponir was arrested earlier and jailed for six months for committing the same crime, said Wildlife Crime Control Unit Inspector Asim Kumar Mallick. “Ponir had secured bail and came out after serving four months in jail.”Also Read- Night raid rescues 494 turtles from being smuggled to India“The turtles recovered from them are of an endangered species.

Source: Dhaka Tribune February 23, 2018 12:11 UTC