The turtles were stashed in a bag that the accused was carrying

Acting on a tip-off, a team of the forest department, Kalyan Government Railway Police (GRP) and Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) arrested a man from a lodge near Kalyan railway station and recovered more than 50 black pond turtles from him, of which four were already dead. According to the police, the Kalyan forest department had received information that the man, identified as Dilshan Ehedad, 25, was running an illegal online business of selling turtles. Thereafter, they laid the trap and nabbed him.