The three passengers Al Dhaheri Hamad, Al Shamsi Mohammed and Al Shamsi Rashid arrived on Sunday at about 12:30 pm from Bangkok by Jet Airways flight 9W 063.
They approached for frisking at transfer to fly by another Jet Airways flight 9W 548 to Dubai, when their gait caught the notice of CISF guards.
During frisking, one tiny monkey of species Splendour Loris (6 to 7 inch long and around 150 gm weight) was found from the underwear of one of the passengers. The passenger, in fact, had worn two underwears, and the tiny monkey was wrapped in a sock.
Another tiny moneky of the same species was found abandoned in a dustbin of the terminal while the search was in progress.
The shift-in-charge of CISF was instructed to call in wildlife experts and Delhi Police was also informed. The officials came at around 5 pm, and all three passengers were booked under various sections of law.
There was a five-hour gap in air transit, and the way the three passengers were walking caught the attention of security guards. They appear to stumble as they walked and all the three were stopped for frisking.
The three passengers admitted that they have been indulging in this smuggling trade earlier too.
The cost of these slender monkey is very high in the Middle East and the monkeys are used for making sex stimulant medicines and for sorcery.
There are 5 species of slow loris and they are found in South and Southeast Asia. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN_ recognises the five species as either endangered or vulnerable.
The total population of these species is unknown, and they are found in India, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and south China.
They are found in tropical rainforests, seasonal evergreen forests, deciduous tropical forests, sub-tropical hill forests, swamp forests, the savannahs, peat swamps and in hardwod forests.
