3 get nine months imprisonment each for selling turtles

RAB Mobile Court on information recovered some rare species of turtles from city's Sakharibazar area on Friday and jailed three men for illegally selling those.
RAB Mobile Court on information recovered some rare species of turtles from city's Sakharibazar area on Friday and jailed three men for illegally selling those.
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BSS, Dhaka :
A mobile court of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) yesterday sentenced three businessmen to nine months imprisonment each for selling endangered species of turtles in Shakhari Bazar area in the capital.
The convicted were Ponir Chandra Das, 40, Dipok Nandi, 55 and Moyna Rani Das, 39.
The member of the elite force arrested them from the city’s Shakhari Bazar
area yesterday morning while they were selling turtles of endangered species, Mahiuddin Faruqui, Senior Assistant Director of RAB-10, said.
Acting on a tip off, the members of the wildlife conservation unit of the RAB-10 carried out a drive in the city’s Shakhari Bazar area yesterday morning. Executive Magistrate of RAB Headquarters M Sarwar Alam, who led the court, inflicted punishment on the accused.
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