India: A man accused of possessing five Shahtoosh shawls made of Tibetan Antelope, an endangered animal, has been sentenced to one-year imprisonment by a Delhi court.

Additional chief metropolitan magistrate Devendra Kumar Sharma held Arif Qureshi, who was having a shop at Delhi Haat in South Delhi, guilty of keeping the shawls whose trade and possession are banned under the Wild Life (Protection) Act.

The court also imposed a fine of Rs 5,000 on Qureshi.