muzaffarnagar police in ups muzaffarnagar district have arrested two alleged animal traffickers from haiderpur wetland and recovered 37 turtles and three pythons from their possession a case under various sections including that of wild life protection act 1972 was registered at bhopa police station and a joint probe was also launched by the forest department and police to unearth the entire racket according to police arvind and govind residents of yogender nagar in bhopa area were arrested when they were going to delhi to sell the creaturessenior superintendent of police ssp abhishek yadav said this is the first time that we have been able to nab these culprits redhanded however we were getting reports of such activities taking place in the region we had constituted a patrolling team and also installed a police picket near the wetlandhaiderpur wetland situated on bijnormuzaffarnagar border hosts thousands of migratory birds every winter and of late conservation efforts have also led to the introduction of turtles in the region by up forest division and wwf indiaaccording to police sources during police investigation it has been revealed that the pythons and turtles are used to make illegal medicine they are also used for tantrik activitiesstation house officer sho of the bhopa deepak chaturvedi said during interrogation the accused have revealed that they used to sell a python between rs 25000 to rs 2lakh depending on its size we are tracking their linksforest officer of bhopa area s pundir said investigation is being conducted we are also trying to find that where these creatures are being supplied