8 geckos rescued
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) rescued eight geckos and arrested two persons who tried to sell the reptiles illegally at Chandrima Udyan on Thursday.
A mobile court sentenced the poachers to six months jail each. The convicted are Md Bashir Uddin, 32, and Anwar Hossain, 55, of Gournadi in Barisal.
Rab sources said that they received information that a gang of poachers has brought some geckos, locally known as 'takkhok', to the capital. They went to the area and caught the poachers trying to sell the reptiles.
The accused confessed to their crimes to the mobile court.
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