Believe it or not, 13 parrots, who were allegedly being smuggled out of India, were produced at New Delhi’s Patiala House Court yesterday. According to a report in The Indian Express, they were being smuggled to Tashkent by an Uzbekistan national.
The parrots were produced in front of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Manish Khurana. The 24-year-old accused, Anvarjon Rakhmat Jonov, was also produced in the court.
The 13 parrots were caught at New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport on Tuesday, October 15. They came to the attention of security officials while baggage were being scanned, and security personnel spotted graphics of birds inside shoeboxes in a bag.
The bag belonged to Anvarjon Rakhmat Jonov but upon being questioned, he resisted and claimed that they were soft toys.
The authorities, however, were not fully satisfied with his reply so they opened his bag and checked the boxes, only to find as many as 13 parrots hidden inside them. Most of the birds were found in an unconscious state.
A senior CISF official was quoted as saying that the accused, Jonov, was scheduled to board a flight to Tashkent through Uzbekistan Airways.
“During questioning, he revealed that these were rose-ringed parakeets, whose demand is high in Tashkent,” said a customs officer.
17/10/19 Saket Suman/India Times
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The parrots were produced in front of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Manish Khurana. The 24-year-old accused, Anvarjon Rakhmat Jonov, was also produced in the court.
The 13 parrots were caught at New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport on Tuesday, October 15. They came to the attention of security officials while baggage were being scanned, and security personnel spotted graphics of birds inside shoeboxes in a bag.
The bag belonged to Anvarjon Rakhmat Jonov but upon being questioned, he resisted and claimed that they were soft toys.
The authorities, however, were not fully satisfied with his reply so they opened his bag and checked the boxes, only to find as many as 13 parrots hidden inside them. Most of the birds were found in an unconscious state.
A senior CISF official was quoted as saying that the accused, Jonov, was scheduled to board a flight to Tashkent through Uzbekistan Airways.
“During questioning, he revealed that these were rose-ringed parakeets, whose demand is high in Tashkent,” said a customs officer.
17/10/19 Saket Suman/India Times
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