IMPHAL: After various drugs, weapons, and exotic animals, security forces in Manipur have now arrested a person for illegally trading peacock feather shafts to Myanmar, officials said on Sunday.
A senior official said that Manipur Police arrested one person, identified as Mohammad Sharifuddin (24), who was directly involved in transporting peacock feather shafts to Myanmar without proper documentation.
Sharifuddin is a resident of the border town of Moreh under the Tengnoupal district. Four plastic sacks containing 18 bundles each of peacock feather shafts, a total of 72,000, weighing about 142 kg approximately, and a car were recovered from Sharifuddin. The estimated cost of the seized peacock feather is approximately Rs 37 lakh in the international market, the official said.
He said normally various drugs, arms, exotic animals and other contraband were smuggled across the 398 km-long unfenced India-Myanmar border with Manipur, but for the first time, peacock feather shafts were seized while being illegally traded to the neighbouring country. (IANS)
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