Balasore: Police have arrested two persons from Balasore district and seized 40 soft-shell turtles while being illegally transported, officials said.
Personnel of the Balasore Forest Division recovered the turtles from a passenger bus at Rajghat on National Highway-60, they said Friday.
September 7, as many as 87 turtles were seized by forest officials near the Odisha-West Bengal border.
PTI