An anonymous tip off from a five-star hotel in Mumbai led the Thane forest officials to a three bedroom flat at Palava City ... reptiles and even a caged orangutan. The great ape is usually ...

Orangutan and endangered reptiles seized from a 3 BHK flat at Palava When the forest officials reached the flat at the Lodha township, they found 15 reptiles stocked in plastic containers that ...

The smuggled animals were found in appalling conditions inside the flat in Dombivli (East) in Thane district and would not have survived had they not been rescued in time, an official said.