Body parts of endangered animals found in a shop

The Guwahati city police has seized body parts of endangered animals from a shop here, police sources said on Friday.

The seizure was made from the shop called Ratna Kuber on Thursday, sources said.     Among the seizure are skins, bones and skulls of animals such as - tiger, wildcat, monkey, pangolin, monitor lizard, deer and fox, they said.

"The forest department has taken serious note of the seizure and action will be taken against the owner of the shop under the Wildlife Protection Act", a senior state forest
official said. 

Stating that the owner of the shop astrologer Kero Young was "absconding", the official said illegal trade in wildlife body parts has been alarming particularly after a similar huge
seizure near the Manas National Park recently.

"We have registered a case under the wildlife protection act and some of the employees in the shop owned by Young are been interrogated", he said.