The Mathura Police on Wednesday apprehended three smugglers posing as snake charmers in possession of three cobras and 4 Indian Pythons. The accused revealed that they captured the snakes to promote to a intermediary in Ghaziabad, who would extract their venom and promote it at excessive costs to be used as an intoxicant at rave events that are held in metro cities.
Cobras and Indian Pythons had been being captured from forests and nationwide parks for high-priced pores and skin utilized in belts, baggage, and sneakers, mentioned the police.
According to members of the People for Animals who helped with the arrest of the snake smugglers, each Cobras and Indian Pythons fall below Schedule 1 of the Wildlife Act, making any sale and buy of those animals or their components a critical felony offense.
They claimed these smugglers colluded with corrupt forest division and nationwide park workers and had been making hundreds of thousands promoting snake venom and pores and skin.
“A ten gm vial of cobra venom may fetch as a lot as Rs. 1.5 lakh at these rave events,” a PFA volunteer advised India Today.
Mathura Police produced snake smugglers Satpal, Shyam Nath, and Pappu Nath in courtroom, sending them to jail. They had been all residents of the village Shergarh in Mathura district. Other accomplices, together with the Ghaziabad-based mastermind Nikhil Sisodia, are being tracked down.
