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Senior Superintendent of Police Shailendra Kumar Pandey said that in the course of the campaign to prevent wildlife smuggling, the joint team surrounded a turtle smuggler gang in the Nandgaon canal track area on Wednesday and arrested Chand Khan.
Apart from 22 turtles, a motorcycle and mobile phone have also been seized from him, a police official said, adding that Khan’s associate Kannu managed to escape.
A case has been registered against Khan under the Wildlife Protection Act, police said that the man was arrested in 2021 too on the same charge.