Customs officials arrest mule trying to smuggle three gibbons in check-in baggage
The accused, identified as Najma, a resident of Bagalur, was caught as soon as she landed from a Thai Airways flight from Bangkok to Bengaluru. The accused, according to the officials, was working as a mule for an international wildlife smuggling racket and was earlier arrested for a similar offence reported by Chennai in February 2024 .
The accused had allegedly stuffed the three gibbons in the check in bag along with packets of snacks to be handed over to her contacts waiting outside the airport.
When the officials checked the baggage they found one silver gibbon and two Bornean white bearded gibbons dead.
The accused has been booked under Wildlife Protection Act and taken into the custody to ascertain the people behind this network .
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