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THANE: The two fish aquarium shop owners, who were arrested for selling protected turtle species recently, were sent to forest custody by a magistrate court on Friday. We sent one of our team members as a customer to KGN pet shop and Tayba pet shop, both of which had various species of the turtles that are protected under the Wildlife Protection Act,” said Girija Desai, assistant conservator of forests (Thane forest division). The accused, Salim Khan (23) and Shah Alam Shaikh (38), were caught red-handed during a joint raid was conducted by officials of the forest department and volunteers from an NGO, Wildlife Welfare Association.The raids were part of the on-going crack down against the illegal sale of the protected species.“We had received a tip-off that the accused were selling the protected turtles..