10 people were arrested for alleged animal trafficking after 500 lizards, used for making aphrodisiac oil, were seized by the Rawalpindi Wildlife Department.

As per reports, the Rawalpindi District Wildlife Officer (DWO) Rizwana Aziz with Wildlife Inspector Amjad Abbasi and a team conducted raids on Saddar road after several public complaints were registered regarding the banned practice of extracting oil from lizards.

Apart from the lizards, the team also detained stoves, gas cylinders, frying pans and other equipment that was used to extract oil from their body.

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The suspects were later presented before Civil Judge Sameera Alamgir, who sent them to the Adiala jail on judicial remand. The court also asked the wildlife department to present a charge-sheet against all suspects on January 1. Meanwhile, the wildlife department has said that all recovered reptiles will be set free in the forest.