Tortoises worth about Rs 5 crore and Sambar deer horns worth Rs 50 lakhs were seized.

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Does pooja mean they were going to sacrifice them?
Big Charlie,
Not very likely. I’ve done some google “cut and paste” and there is much more clean information to be absorbed other than the light tif-bits I’ve supplied here. Enjoy.

Puja, sometimes spelled pooja, is called பூஜை in Tamil, and bucha (บูชา) in Thai.

As with church services in Christianity, Pūjā in Hinduism has served as a means for Hindu communities outside India to gather, socialize, discover new friends and sometimes discuss ways to address social discrimination of Hindus.[31][32][33] For example, Marion O'Callaghan reports[34] that the Hindu diaspora brought as indentured laborers to Trinidad by the British colonial government, suffered discriminatory laws that did not recognize traditional Hindu marriages or inheritance rights of children from a traditional Hindu marriage, nor did the non-Hindu majority government allow pyre cremation or construction of crematorium. These Hindu rituals were considered pagan and uncivilized. Pujas offered a way for Hindus to meet, socially organize and petition their human rights. Over time, pujas became as much as social and community recreational event, as a religious event.[34]
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Does pooja mean they were going to sacrifice them?
ooja means worship....in India we have idols of tortoises in temples and tortoise in Shiva Temples has a symbolic significance to inspire the devotees in their spiritual practice.

A tortoise has the ability to withdraw all its limbs and head completely within its shell. This symbolically inspires a spiritual aspirant to withdraw all his senses from the material world.

Further when a tortoise lays eggs, it has a peculiar way of hatching them. She does not sit on top of them to hatch them but focuses her attention by constantly looking at them. The energy from her eyes hatches the eggs. This inspires a spiritual aspirant to focus all his attention one pointedly towards Lord Shiva. Also the importance of 'Darshan', focussing ones attention on the image or the Lingam of Shiva, is explained by the symbolic use of a tortoise in the temple.
Also it is believed that tortoise can attract materialistic waves (money, wealth)....so people in India worship them and love them having as a pet for the belief that it will bring good luck and prosperity..
 

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pooja means worship....
A tortoise has the ability to withdraw all its limbs and head completely within its shell. This symbolically inspires a spiritual aspirant to withdraw all his senses from the material world.
Also it is believed that tortoise can attract materialistic waves (money, wealth)....so people in India worship them and love them having as a pet for the belief that it will bring good luck and prosperity..

Rolley,
Thank you for this firsthand explanation for us. I know I certainly appreciate it, and appreciate the time you spent composing it so eloquently.
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