{"id":648910,"date":"2025-10-06T11:59:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T06:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=648910"},"modified":"2025-10-06T11:59:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T06:29:21","slug":"passenger-held-with-exotic-wildlife-at-mumbai-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/passenger-held-with-exotic-wildlife-at-mumbai-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"Passenger held with exotic wildlife at Mumbai airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: The Air Intelligence Unit (AIU) of Mumbai customs intercepted a passenger attempting to smuggle exotic wildlife species into India during night duty, at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport on Saturday. The accused, identified as Harish Saravanan, a native of Tamil Nadu , was discreetly followed and stopped after crossing the green channel based on specific intelligence inputs.<\/p>\n<p>A thorough search of his baggage \u2014 a brown &#8220;King Safari&#8221; trolley \u2014 revealed one pink bamboo basket, two blue plastic cages, and two pink-yellow cages concealed among chocolates and food items. On opening these containers, officers discovered several live and dead exotic species. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: The Air Intelligence Unit (AIU) of Mumbai customs intercepted a passenger attempting to smuggle exotic wildlife species into India during night duty, at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport on Saturday. The accused, identified as Harish Saravanan, a native of Tamil Nadu , was discreetly followed and stopped after crossing the green channel based on specific intelligence inputs. A thorough search of his baggage \u2014 a brown &#8220;King Safari&#8221; trolley \u2014 revealed one pink bamboo basket, two blue plastic cages, and two pink-yellow cages concealed among chocolates and food items. On opening these containers, officers discovered several live and dead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}