180 tortoises seized in Bangladesh-India border

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) men recovered 180 turtles from Putkhali border under Benapole Port Police Station on 4 October 2015.
http://www.thedailystar.net/country/180-tortoises-seized-151843

Tortoises seized in Andhra Pradesh

Police seized 14 tortoises in West Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh on 30 June 2015.
http://news.webindia123.com/news/Articles/India/20150630/2630974.html

Bareilly turns into illegal turtle smuggling centre

Bareilly is fast becoming a transit point for animal smuggling, especially that of endangered species of turtles/ tortoises.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bareilly/Bareilly-turning-into-animal-smuggling-hub/articleshow/44760382.cms

Tortoises seized in Bihar

Around 750 tortoises concealed in gunny bags, were seized and a person was arrested on 1 March 2014 in Purnea district of Bihar.
http://www.indileak.com/wildife-smuggler-held-in-bihar-with-750-tortoises/

Tortoises seized in Uttar Pradesh

586 live tortoises were seized and three persons arrested by police in Badaun district of Uttar Pradesh on 1 December 2012.
http://www.ptinews.com/news/3176323_Three-held-with-586-live-tortoises

Poaching and seizures reported on last week

CID forest cell of Karnataka police seized a tiger skin and bone and arrested four people near Kollegal in Chamrajnagar district of Karnataka.

In Uttarakhand, two poachers were arrested in connection with killing of a tiger in Terai West Forest Division on 22nd July 2012. A leopard skin was seized and two persons were arrested by police in Haldwani, Nainital. In Bageshwar district one person was arrested with a gall bladder of Himalayan black bear. In Kotdwar, Pauri district 67kg of elephant ivory were also seized by police. In Rajaji National Park, four illegal fish poachers were arrested.

In Chhattisgarh three persons were arrested by police with a leopard skin in Raipur.

In Andhra Pradesh a person was arrested by forest department of killing a leopard in Mahbubnagar district.

Poachers were killed two rhinos in Kaziranga, Assam last week one each in Bagori and Agratoli ranges.

Tamil Nadu forest department arrested a person with 350 fresh water tortoises in Pudukkottai district.

40 tortoises seized in Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh

Government Railway Police was arrested a man in Jaunpur on 25 August 2012 while he was smuggling 44 tortoises.
http://ibnlive.in.com/generalnewsfeed/news/man-caught-smuggling-over-40-tortoises/1050374.html

Tortoises seized in Dhaka, 1 Indian arrested

Customs officials seized 108 tortoises in Dhaka airport, Bangladesh and arrested two persons including an Indian citizen on 7 August 2012.
http://www.business-standard.com/generalnews/news/indian-arrested-in-bangladesh-for-smuggling-108-turtles/41699/

Tortoises seized in Varanasi

A person was arrested with 55 tortoises by Railway police in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh on 27 July 2012.
http://www.business-standard.com/generalnews/news/smuggler-arrested-55-tortoises-seized/37687/

Turtle poachers arrested in Chambal Sanctuary, Uttar Pradesh

Two turtle poachers were arrested in Chambal wildlife sanctuary, Agra, Uttar Pradesh on 22 July 2012.
http://www.amarujala.com/city/Agra/Agra-41195-3.html

Eight tortoises seized in Udham Singh Nagar district

Forest officials arrested one person with 8 tortoises in Dineshpur, Udham Singh Nagar district of Uttarakhand on the night of 15 July 2012.
http://www.amarujala.com/city/Udham_singh_nagar/Udham_singh_nagar-35740-118.html

Tortoise seized in Delhi

Delhi police arrested two persons with a tortoise in Delhi on 16 July 2012.
http://ibnlive.in.com/generalnewsfeed/news/two-caught-selling-tortoise-sent-to-judicial-custody/1023817.html

612 tortoises seized in Lucknow

One person was arrested with 612 tortoises at Charbagh railway station in Lucknow on 12 July 2012.
http://www.ndtv.com/article/cities/man-arrested-in-uttar-pradesh-for-trying-to-smuggle-over-600-tortoises-242747

Tortoises seized in Belgaum

Three persons were arrested in Belgaum district of Karnataka on 5 June 2012 in connection with smuggling of three tortoises.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mysore/Three-held-for-smuggling-tortoises/articleshow/13860853.cms

Tortoises seized in Karnataka

Police arrested a person with 9 tortoises on 17th December at Dakshin Kannada district of Karnataka.

290 tortoises seized from a train in Bihar

Railway police seized 290 tortoises packed in sacks from a train at Katihar, Bihar on 7th December.

Tortoises smuggling detected in Uttar Pradesh

32 tortoises en route to West Bengal were seized by Uttar Pradesh police at Ghazipur on 11th November, 2 arrested.

Tortoises seized in Burdwan, West Bengal

102 tortoises carried from Uttar Pradesh to West Bengal was seized from an express train at Burdwan on 19th September by Government Railway Police. 3 people were arrested in this connection.

Three arrested for trying to smuggle tortoises

Railway police seized 30 tortoises and arrested three persons at Jaunpur railway station, Uttar Pradesh.

Tortoises seized in Chennai

A person from Andhra Pradesh arrested in Chennai with two bags full of tortoises. A case was registered and later compounded by forest department.