pune the grp arrested tarunkumar mohan 26 of chennai and shrinivasan kamal 20 of kolathur in tamil nadu on the charge of illegally possessing african tortoises and 1207 iguanasa team headed by grp government railway police superintendent of police sadanand wayasepatil inspector maula sayyed and others found the two carrying the exotic wild animals packed in boxes on chennaimumbai express on tuesday a total of 230 beta fish and 279 african tortoises were also seized from themthe grp registered an offence against mohan and kamal both fish packers in chennai the case was transferred to the central customs department for further probewayasepatil said a government clearance and certificate are needed to keep these wild animals in possession the duo did not have documents showing how these animals were imported they also failed to produce the travel documents we verified the animals with the appropriate authorities and registered the case customs clearance certificate is mandatory to possess these animalssayyed said our team members were patrolling the chennaimumbai express on tuesday afternoon as it left pune towards lonavla they spotted the two men sitting with large bags and acting suspiciously our team then decided to check their bags and found the wild animals kept in boxes inside he said the preliminary investigation revealed these two men were just the carrier of these african wild creatures they said a man in chennai handed them the consignment and asked them to deliver it to a man in mumbai none of the exotic animals were injured we have handed over the wild animals to the customs officials