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The health of each tortoise has been examined to find that they can be released after they each gain 80 grams in weight. After examination, it was found that the largest tortoise among the lot weighed 864 grams and was close to 4-5 years old while the smallest weighed only about 23 grams at one week of age.
The chief minister promptly directed the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) authorities to look into the matter. The then engineer-in-chief of the BBMP wrote a letter to the then additional commissioner of police (traffic) on December 20, 2012 to start a prepaid auto counter at Anand Rao Circle and one more at Yeshwantpur Railway Station as per the representation forwarded by the chief minister’s office.
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